The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, held a national meeting with teachers and parents in Tirana yesterday, during which a new action plan to strengthen security mechanisms in schools was presented.
In his speech, Rama particularly focused on the issue of social media in schools. He stated that teachers are directly affected as they are part of a system meant to prevent incidents arising from social media challenges.
“Similarly, if a teacher does not have parents as allies, they have very little power in their hands. On the other hand, if teachers, parents – and when I say teachers, I mean the institutions that support them – do not decide today to change their approach to this relationship and seriously ensure they do everything necessary to secure the psychological development of children, we will lose this generation,” he said.
Following this, Rama announced that Albania would soon take a drastic measure.
“We will ban TikTok. Keep in mind that we have already completed all our technological research, and it will take us six to eight weeks, starting early next year, to completely shut it down for everyone for one year. There will be no TikTok in the Republic of Albania! During that year, we will see how other countries act, what technology produces in terms of restrictions and filters, and how TikTok itself responds. TikTok in China and TikTok in the rest of the world are two entirely different realities,” he stated.
Rama also noted that the problem is not the children but society itself.
“The problem today is us, the problem today is our society, the problem today is TikTok and all the other TikToks that are holding our children hostage,” Rama concluded, Klix.ba writes.
