Media Personel Ciku: TikTok Harmful To Underage Users
Kenyan journalist Ciku Muiruri has called upon parents to be aware of the explicit content shared on TikTok that may cause some moral degradation among children.
The journalist on her Facebook has expressed her worry where some persons are shooting explicit contents of children and selling as digital way of earning a living.
“Parents, Tiktok has taken a dark turn and is not the harmless place it once was. People are posting devil worship videos, mothers are asking for pay to get their underage daughters to do questionable sexually explicit dance moves and apparently at around 2-3 am, its a porn site. And I’m not talking about foreigners, these are Kenyans” says Ciku.
According to Ciku, TikTok a Chinese owned ByteDance social media platform is currently not much favourable for children.
The current content shared by many adults morally degrades the behaviors of children when exposed to it or them.
Last week, Canada and Denmark banned all governmental employees from having TikTok accounts on their government owned electronic gadgets especially phones and computers.
The two states claimed there’s high rate of insecurities where Chinese government monitor and extract information which get leaked by ByteDance that’s is a threat to their working environment.
After Denmark and Canada, the US Federal government followed the suit by banning all government officials from having TikTok in their phones.
The US also claimed the Chinese government is using TikTok to monitor their critical activities as a state.
The US say the Chinese policies on privacy and security over social media platforms are highly adhered to especially in Beijing for foreigners but when it comes to its practice in foreign states, it claim the foreign state doesn’t respect the rights and freedoms of people to access information.
Amid last year, Yahoo and LinkedIn shut down its offices in Beijing because of data privacy laws imposed to them by the Chinese government.
Late last week, ByteDance announced the introduction of 60- minute phone screen activation per every 24 hours for children under 18 years on TikTok, to regulate them from consuming explicit content.
ByteDance added that in case the time elapses, the user (under 18) is requested to provide a passcode that he/she will be enabled to have access to TikTok content.
ByteDance said the regulation of underage on TikTok aims at regulating explicit content consumption by them and also, preventing them from TikTok addition.
In line with the pleas of Ciku Muiruri, on January, TikTok and Instagram in some European and Asian countries like Australia passed a law that allows persons to post explicit imageries on the two accounts.
Instagram was allowed to let people post naked nipple pictorials on its platform by users as well as on TikTok. This is now a threat to Kenya’s underage children who their parents have left them have access to TikTok content without regulation.
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