Albania Will Close TikTok for One Year, Saying It Encourages Violence Among Children (apnews.com)
(Sunday December 22, 2024 @11:34AM (EditorDavid)
from the anti-social-media dept.)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/22/048232/albania-will-close-tiktok-for-one-year-saying-it-encourages-violence-among-children
- Source link: https://apnews.com/article/albania-tiktok-children-violence-bullying-closure-9f1073fd1f3786524bad3926f0190ed0
The Associated Press reports that in Albania (population: 2,402,113), "children comprise the largest group of TikTok users in the country, according to domestic researchers."
But "Albania's prime minister said Saturday the government [1]will shut down the video service TikTok for one year , blaming it for inciting violence and bullying, especially among children" after "the stabbing death of a teenager in mid-November by another teen after a quarrel that started on TikTok."
> 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 stories they see on TikTok. TikTok's operations in China, where its parent company 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 in an email response to The Associated Press' request for comment. Rama's office said that in China TikTok "prevents children from being sucked into this abyss."
TikTok told the Associated Press it "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...."
[1] https://apnews.com/article/albania-tiktok-children-violence-bullying-closure-9f1073fd1f3786524bad3926f0190ed0
But "Albania's prime minister said Saturday the government [1]will shut down the video service TikTok for one year , blaming it for inciting violence and bullying, especially among children" after "the stabbing death of a teenager in mid-November by another teen after a quarrel that started on TikTok."
> 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 stories they see on TikTok. TikTok's operations in China, where its parent company 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 in an email response to The Associated Press' request for comment. Rama's office said that in China TikTok "prevents children from being sucked into this abyss."
TikTok told the Associated Press it "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...."
[1] https://apnews.com/article/albania-tiktok-children-violence-bullying-closure-9f1073fd1f3786524bad3926f0190ed0
I'm starting to get a bad feeling about China's re (Score:1)
Such as destabilizing the world. Cutting off anyone adversarial, and now it seems poisoning the world's children (just not it's own) with hatred and violence, possibly so when they make their moves, it'll be easier to "cull the herd" as it were. Ok tinfoil hat off, but seriously, is it that far out there? Everybody wants to rule the world they say, and it's looking like China has a real long game already producing results I'm sure are even better than they ever expected.
Re: I'm starting to get a bad feeling about China' (Score:1)
The title should be China's real global intentions.