Bill 133: Social Media Responsibility Act

This bill directly targets companies that operate social media platforms — think businesses running apps or websites where users post content and interact with each other, like social networks, community forums, or similar online services that are accessible to Nova Scotians. Any platform that could be used by someone under 16 in Nova Scotia needs to implement age-verification or age-gating measures. The burden falls on platform providers regardless of their size, though in practice this most heavily affects large tech companies headquartered outside Nova Scotia (and likely outside Canada) that run consumer-facing social platforms. Smaller Nova Scotia-based operators running community or social-style websites may also be caught if they meet the definition, but purely business-to-business platforms are explicitly excluded.