While this Thursday marked the national day against school bullying and cyberbullying.
Education Minister Pap Ndiaye said he wanted the social network TikTok to “regulate and moderate in a much more serious way” the activities of its subscribers, in particular on bullying at school.
“TikTok is a platform that is used extremely widely and has great popularity among young people.
I have nothing against TikTok as such, I just want TikTok to regulate and moderate the activities of its subscribers in a much more serious way, ”launched Pap Ndiaye, interviewed during the program The phone rings on France Inter.
The minister mentioned on this social network “the circulation of a certain number of messages” which cannot be “approved and which harm the school, the students and the Republic”.
Traveling to a college in the Paris region on Monday, the minister recalled that the fight against school bullying was "a priority" for the government, which will continue to deploy its prevention system.
The pHARe program generalized in all academies
At the same time, Olivier Véran published, on his TikTok account precisely, an exchange with "Néo The One", "TikTokeur" to more than a million subscribers, who himself had denounced a little more two years of the cyberbullying he was experiencing.
“There are many people who look at you and who are in college or high school, who sometimes experience harassment who witness scenes of harassment,” said the government spokesperson.
"You have to talk about it, whether it's to your parents, to your teachers, you have to find someone to communicate, you mustn't be afraid to do it (…) I know what it's like, me personally really helped”, answered the one who is also strongly followed on YouTube.
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The pHARe program to fight against government harassment “is generalized from the start of the 2022 school year. It existed in an experimental form before.
It has given excellent results in the academies where it has been implemented, with awareness, with better support, better detection of cases of harassment, and an improvement in the school climate, "he said. precise.
In addition, there are other anti-harassment measures, such as the emergency help numbers 30 20 (for families and victims), and 30 18 (cyberharassment).