Italy Italy orders TikTok to block profiles of children under 13 after the death of a girl in a challenge
Events A 10-year-old girl in Italy suffocated after participating in a TikTok challenge
A ten-year-old girl has hanged herself in
Palermo
with the belt of a bathrobe for trying to fulfill a challenge published on the social network
TikTok
.
Sometimes it is convenient to say things like this: without anesthesia, without adjectives, just the bare fact that hits us with an insurmountable punch by any form of rhetoric.
A girl.
Ten years.
Hanged
To fulfill.
Challenge.
TikTok.
You have to call things by their name and also record the name of the things that lead to the events.
Perhaps one of the problems of this
digital civilization
, if that noun suits it - and not that of
jungle
,
chaos
, or
tangle
- is how those who manage and make profitable it are leading us to the vice of avoiding the right and complete expression .
Thus euphemisms prevail, oblique expressions and, when the pious loses his nerves, he passes almost without transition to the outburst that nothing describes, nothing explains, nothing counts.
Through the networks, not only the aforementioned, an irrepressible trash of
empty
words circulates, which seek to look good -the
like-
and, when that purpose fails, they immediately degenerate into an abusive logorrhea that leaves the employee worse off than the recipient.
Unless in the latter case it is someone immature who has not learned to ignore the excesses of the obfuscated human soul.
And this is precisely the question here:
maturity
.
With being scary, it is not the scariest thing that a ten-year-old girl, with her whole life ahead of her, suddenly loses her entire future and theirs lose the possibility of sharing it.
The terrifying thing is that it happens unnecessarily, because the creature was exposed to what it had no capacity to understand - or question - and should never have been exposed.
And the question that arises, and cannot help but arise in a society that aspires to have some dignity, is who is responsible for the mess.
We know the simple answer, the one that over and over again, for many years now, the astute managers of these megacorporations that with cybernetic clutter have become larger than the most colossal of traditional corporations, and which instead We keep asking them the same accounts as a dazed teenager, perhaps because their executives mislead us by dressing in jeans and sneakers instead of the dark plutocrat suit.
That answer, summarized badly and soon, is that the fault lies with the girl, and since she is a minor, with the parents, who had to educate her and see what she was doing with the mobile that maybe they should not have given her.
The girl's father, in fact, seems to assume that, at first, when he regrets having bought the instrument of his misfortune.
However, it is time to go a little further, to get out of that superficial inertia to which we are pushed by the technique of continuous distraction, stop the clock for a moment and, for a change, sink a little deeper.
What is intolerable is that a ten-year-old girl, instead of having time to play, train and be as happy as possible, is already driven to the dark concept of
challenge
, that is, to feel put to the test, in an absurd and dangerous as well, and without having the mental tools to understand it, send his challengers for a ride and grab a doll, a remote-controlled car, a pirate tale or whatever he wants.
And that unacceptable event is influenced by the fact that it was connected to a network in which incitement to potentially fatal practices is freely disseminated, without ensuring that the recipients of that message do not include ten-year-olds.
Italy
, in a burst of dignity as a society, late and already useless to save that life, has decided to block the digital pipes through which this deadly garbage circulates.
It is not a bad precedent.
Hamelin's cyberflutists'
open bar is
going on
for too long.
Someone has to rate the flute.
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