He president of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro emphasized that the bosses of TikTok are responsible for the deaths of the three Venezuelan children who followed a viral challenge through this social network.
The head of state revealed that TikTok Latin America responded for the first time to a warning and protest letter delivered by the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel). “I think we agree that this must end,” he commented during the broadcast No. 68 of the programa With Maduro +.
Maduro asserted that, if the social platform does not end dirty campaigns to harm minds, Venezuelan law must be applied. He also recalled that he asked the Venezuelan student movement to submit proposals on what the country’s options are to deal with this type of harmful content.
“TikTok is your responsibility, the death of those children will haunt you (…) and to the family of these boys and girls you will have to respond sooner rather than later. What you have committed is a crime,” he confirmed.
Maduro contrasted how TikTok censors other content and accounts in Venezuela, “but they promote the worst. “They want to destroy our societies,” he argued.
The first national leader affirmed that his pulse will not tremble to apply the law in the face of any decision made by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ).
“In Venezuela there will be State, law, order and justice,” he concluded.
