Making a statement about the closure of Instagram and Roblox, Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin stated that they are taking precautions to protect children from digital addiction.
Unfortunately, access blocking decisions, one after the other, have been on Turkey’s agenda lately. First the world’s most popular photo sharing application Instagramthen one of the most popular games in the world Robloxfaced an access barrier. Both platforms are expected to reopen after meeting the government’s demands.
The last person to speak about access barriers was Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin. “In today’s digital age, The safety and healthy development of our children is of greater importance than ever.Minister Tekin’s statements regarding the Instagram and Roblox ban were as follows:
“We are taking various measures to prevent digital addiction”
As the Ministry, we take various measures to protect our children from the dangers they may encounter in the digital world and to prevent digital addiction.
In recent years, social media platforms and online games take up a large portion of our children’s time. These platforms can host content that may negatively affect the social, academic and psychological development of our students. Especially popular platforms such as Instagram and Roblox, It can cause our children to drift into digital addiction and encounter uncontrolled content, which we can call digital fascism.
There is no doubt that it is essential for digital media platforms to respect universal law, domestic law and our responsibilities for the future.
Let’s not forget that it is our common responsibility to protect our children from the #DigitalFascism of social media tools.
We must all say stop to #DigitalFascism!
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