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Albania declares one-year TikTok ban over stabbing (www.bbc.com)

submitted 3 days ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Albania's prime minister has announced the government intends to block access to TikTok for one year after the killing of a schoolboy last month raised fears about the influence of social media on children.

Speaking on Saturday Edi Rama declared the proposed ban would start in January.

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The blocking of TikTok comes less than a month after the 14-year-old student was killed and another injured in a fight near a school in southern Tirana which had its roots in a confrontation on social media.

The killing sparked a debate in Albania among parents, psychologists and educational institutions about the impact of social networks on young people.

"In China, TikTok promotes how students can take courses, how to protect nature, how to keep traditions, but on the TikTok outside China we see only scum and mud. Why do we need this?", Rama said.

TikTok is already banned in India, which was one of the app's largest markets before it was outlawed in June 2020. It is also blocked in Iran, Nepal, Afghanistan and Somalia.

TikTok is also fighting against a law passed by the US Congress which would ban the app from 19 January unless it is sold by ByteDance - its Chinese parent

company.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is like when your parents would take away the power cable to your games for a few days because you and your sibling got into a fight.

[–] tardigrada@beehaw.org 7 points 2 days ago

@Kolanaki@yiffit.net

... the 14-year-old student was killed and another injured ...

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is like when the police take away the murder weapon and charge the people responsible for inciting murder because someone killed someone and the murder weapon is a fucking nation state propaganda machine.

[–] derbis@beehaw.org 1 points 14 hours ago

I'm sure Amogus and Doom 2 had something to do with it also

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago

This is like when the police throw the murder weapon in jail and avoid charging anyone because it's easier to find a scapegoat instead of holding parents responsible for what they teach their kids.

[–] InevitableList@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Except no one involved uses tiktok

[–] tardigrada@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago

@InevitableList

As AP reports on the same issue:

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.

Isn't it somewhat strange that Tiktok, whose parent company is forced to closely surveill and censor each politically undesired content in its home country, while it is at the same time not only unable to suppress but reportedly even promotes obviously harmful content on its platforms outside China?

[Edit typo.]