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For inciting youth violence and bullying Albania to ban TikTok for one year

by NewsNet Nigeria
6 months ago
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For inciting youth violence and bullying Albania to ban TikTok for one year

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Prime Minister of Albania has said the government will shut down the video service TikTok for one year, blaming it for inciting violence and bullying, especially among children.

Albanian authorities held 1,300 meetings with teachers and parents following the death of a teenager in mid-November who was stabbed by another youth after a quarrel that allegedly started on the video hosting platform.

Prime Minister Edi Rama, speaking at a meeting with teachers and parents, said TikTok “would be fully closed for all. There will be no TikTok in the Republic of Albania.”

Rama said the shutdown would begin next year but didn’t specify a date.

TikTok in an email response to a request for comment asked for “urgent clarity from the Albanian government” on the case of the stabbed teenager.

The company said it had “found no evidence that the perpetrator or victim had TikTok accounts and multiple reports have in fact confirmed videos leading up to this incident were being posted on another platform, not TikTok.”

Albanian children comprise the largest group of TikTok users in the country, according to domestic researchers.

There has been increasing concern from Albanian parents after reports of children taking knives and other objects to school to use in quarrels or cases of bullying promoted by content they see on TikTok.

TikTok’s operations in China, where its parent company ByteDance is based, are different, “promoting how to better study, how to preserve nature and so on,” according to Rama.

Albania is too small a country to impose on TikTok a change of its algorithm so that it does not promote “the reproduction of the unending hell of the language of hatred, violence, bullying and so on,” Rama’s office wrote.

Authorities have set up a series of protective measures at schools, starting with an increased police presence, training programs and closer cooperation with parents.

Rama said Albania would follow how the company and other countries react to the one-year shutdown before deciding whether to allow the company to resume operations in Albania.

But not everyone agreed with the decision to close TikTok.

“The dictatorial decision to close the social media platform TikTok is a grave act against freedom of speech and democracy,” said Ina Zhupa, a lawmaker of the main opposition Democratic Party.

“It is a pure electoral act and abuse of power to suppress freedoms.”

Albania’s decision comes after several European countries, including France, Germany and Belgium, have introduced restrictions on children’s access to social media.

And Australia went a step further in November, banning social media outright for all youngsters under the age of 16.

Source: www.msn.com

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