AN of 2020 prepares law to regulate social networks after the death of teenagers due to viral challenges

The National Assembly, elected in 2020, prepares a law to regulate social networks after the death of two teenagers and mass poisonings in schools in the countryfacts associated with viral challenges published on TikTok.

Jorge Rodríguez, president of the Parliament, indicated that deputies of the Family, Internal Policy and Education, Science and Technology commissions will prepare a first report that will serve as a basis for the billwhose content he did not advance.

“Let legislation be initiated from this NA on social networks and the impact they have on our population and especially on our girls and boys,” he expressed.

The Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello, asked the Police on Tuesday to be alert to the risks that young people run due to viral challenges and called on uniformed personnel to go to educational centers to increase surveillance, after mass poisonings were recorded. in at least five schools in the last two weeks.

On Monday, Nicolás Maduro ordered the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) ask the social network TikTok in Latin America to remove videos about viral challenges from its platforms in Venezuelawhich he described as “abusive and criminal,” after reporting on the death of two teenagers, ages 12 and 14, for participating in challenges published on the platform.

TSJ admits appeal against viral challenges on TikTok

The Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) reported this Thursday that it admitted an appeal for protection filed by the Bolivarian Movement of Families Aristóbulo Istúriz, which requested the protection of the rights of children and adolescents in the face of the risks they run due to viral challenges that circulate on networks social, and that caused the death of two people and massive poisoning in some schools.

On Instagram, the TSJ shared a ruling in which the Constitutional Chamber declares competent the request that, on behalf of the Chavista movement, was filed by Yuleidi Carrizo, who explained on Wednesday that through an appeal for protection the State is asked to order the withdrawal of the viral challenges on the social network TikTok that “have been affecting dozens of young people in various educational centers.”

The Supreme Court indicated that “due to the urgency and the interests affected,” it notified the Attorney General’s Office, the Ombudsman’s Office, the Autonomous Institute of the National Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents, as well as the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education. , to appear before the court, where an oral and public hearing will be held.