The Albanian cabinet Thursday decides to close Tiktok for 12 months and to blame the popular platform for sharing videos for inciting violence and bullying, especially with children.
Education Minister Ogerta Manastirliu said that civil servants are in contact with Tiktok about installing filters such as parental supervision, age verification and the inclusion of the Albanian language in the application.
Authorities had held 1,300 meetings with around 65,000 parents who ‘were recommended and in favor of closing or limiting the TIKTOK platform,’ the minister said.
The cabinet started the move last year after a teenager Another teenager stabbed to death In November after a fight that started on Tiktok.
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Tiktok did not immediately respond to a request to comment on the government’s decision.
When Prime Minister Edi Rama said in December that they wanted to close the social media platform, Tiktok asked for “urgent clarity of the Albanian government” in the case of the stabbed teenager.
On Thursday, Rama said that they were in a “positive dialogue with the company”, and that Tiktok would soon visit the country to “offer a series of measures about increasing safety for children”.
The Albanian flag flies in Skopje, North Macedonia (then Macedonia), November 28, 2017. (Photo by Nake Batev/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
The company said that “it had not found any evidence that the perpetrator or the victim had TIKTOK accounts and that several reports actually confirmed videos that were placed on this incident prior to this incident, not TIKTOK.”
According to researchers, Albanian children are the largest group of ticking users in the country.
There is more and more concern of Albanian parents after reports that children are inspired by content on social media to bring knives to school, or cases of bullying that are promoted by stories they see on TIKTOK.
Authorities have increased the presence of police in some schools and set up other measures, including training programs for teachers, students and their parents.
The opposition has not been agreed with the closure of Tiktok and has set 15 March for a protest against the relocation. It said that the ban “was an act of intolerance, fear and fear through free thinking and expression.”
Tiktok, which is managed by the Chinese technology company Bytedance, has confronted questions in many countries and was recently briefly offline in the United States to meet a law required by the app to dispose of the app or to be banned in the US
The app suspended its services in the US less than a day before he recovered the services after Trump’s guarantees that he would postpone it.
Earlier this week, UKs Waakhond van de Data Protection said that examining the app uses personal information from 13 to 17-year-olds to deliver recommendations for content to them.
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The office of the information commissioner said there are growing concerns about how social media platforms used data generated by children’s online activity to provide their recommendation algorithms with power, and the potential for young people to see inappropriate or harmful content.
