"Let's stop the Squid game": an online petition launched on Change.org and addressed to the Parliamentary Commission for Children and Adolescents by the Carolina Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to Carolina Picchio, the first confirmed victim of cyberbullying in Italy, asks for it.
Carolina took her own life in 2013 for the humiliation of seeing herself in a video while, unconscious, her peers played with her body mimicking sexual acts.
"In the face of the dismay of mothers and nursery school teachers, good intentions are not enough, but concrete action is needed" they say from the Onlus, explaining that theirs is not "a censorship act, but responds to the need to face the defeat of parental control and the parenting crisis.
A débâcle exposed by social networks and, above all, by the dozens of reports that the experts for digital security of the new generations have collected from all over Italy ".
"My son hit his little friend while playing Squid Game"; "My daughter's backpack was knocked out of the classroom window because she lost to Squid Game, she doesn't want to leave the house anymore"; "My children weren't invited to their partner's party, because they don't want to play Squid Game" are just some of the testimonies received by the Foundation, but it is enough to have children of school age to know how much the Korean series proposed by Netflix is rampant in schools of all levels, with children - even those in primary school - emulating what they have seen online. At the heart of the series, a deadly game involving hundreds of people with financial problems, who accept a strange invitation to a competition made up of games for children such as '1,2,3 star',but where the loser dies.
It is true that Netflix suggests watching the series to users over 14 years of age, yet Squid Game has gone viral, even among children.
"From today it is possible to sign the petition to block this content, which is deadly for the smallest users and the most fragile young people", complains Ivano Zoppi.
"At this point, the only possible solution - underlines the referent of the foundation - seems to be old-fashioned censorship. Someone will turn up their noses, but now it seems the only possible tool to defend the principle of the safety of minors".
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