We Welcome the Charter
We first welcome the charter signed between the Ministries of Family, Women, Children, and the Elderly, and Communication Technologies, aiming to "strengthen families' abilities to provide a secure digital environment for children." This charter is a salutary act, a state's awakening to the silent dangers that erode our children's innocence on digital platforms every day.
Beyond Institutional Gestures
However, beyond this institutional gesture, it's time to address the issue with gravity: the danger is real, lurking, and polymorphic. The case of TikTok, which has been discussed by the Observatory of Children's Rights, is just one symptom of a digital ecosystem that has become uncontrollable.
The Dark Side of Digital
The digital world, once a promise of knowledge and openness, has turned into an opaque forest where invisible predators, hungry algorithms, and toxic content infiltrate the most tender imaginations. TikTok, with its lightning speed, hypnotic rhythm, and instant aesthetics that crushes reflection, now educates emotions before parents can even name them.
A Call for Vigilance
A platform that can captivate a child in just a few seconds cannot be approached lightly. It requires quasi-parental vigilance, constant and intelligent. This is why the meeting organized by the Observatory on Friday is of utmost importance. It attempts to create what we desperately need: a coordinated thought, harmonized action, and collective understanding of what threatens our children.
New Social Practices
We are dealing with new social practices, new psychological territories, new forms of dependence, and exposure. Our children no longer just play on networks; they live on them. The national charter announced by the ministries is therefore a first, fragile but necessary, bulwark against cyber violence and the drift of these platforms.
A Call to Action
Today, we sound the alarm not out of alarmism, but out of duty. We must protect our children before their screens become their guardians. The time for cautious observation is over; it's time for enlightened, firm, and collective action. So that the digital world can become a tool again and cease to be a danger.
