Albania switches off Tiktok for one year: government acts after fatal violence!

Albania switches off Tiktok for one year: government acts after fatal violence!

Albania makes a drastic decision: Access to Tiktok is blocked for a whole year! This step takes effect on Thursday, as Albanian media reported, citing the authority for electronic and postal communication (AKEP). Prime Minister Edi Rama had already announced in December that this measure would follow to protect the youth from potential dangers.

The background for this radical measure are terrifying. The trigger was a brutal stabbing in which a 14-year-old student died. The two rival groups of young people had been hostile in advance via Tiktok and agreed on a physical argument that ended fatally. In a question-and-answer round with teachers and psychologists in Tirana, Rama Tiktok described Tikkok as "the crook in the district" and announced that he was "chased out of our neighborhood for a year". At Rama, the suspicion was suspected that Tikok's content endanger children and adolescents, and he criticized the platform sharply: "There is only dirt and feces," he said, while highlighting the different content, offers the Tikok in China compared to what is spread outside of China, how Tagesschau reports .

measures to implement the lock

How the AKEP wants to implement the lock remains unclear. However, the Internet service providers in Albania were asked by email to block access to Tikkok by March 13th and to present a written documentation to the authority about their measures. Despite this announcement, it is also to be expected that some users will try to bypass the lock, for example through VPNs that enable it to appear as if they were in another country. This precaution is often used in governments that want to restrict access to certain content, and could also become a problem in Albania, since Tikkok is controversial worldwide.