TikTok Türkiye Representative Appeared in front of the Turkish Grand National Assembly

TBMM Digital Media commission, first TikTok To discuss controversial issues regarding social media platforms, including Commission Chairman and AK Party Hatay Deputy Hüseyin Yayman convened under his chairmanship. President Yayman, “Freedom is important to us, but our family is even more important, the future of our children is much more important.” said.

Highlights of Yayman’s words were as follows:

“On the one hand while defending freedomsOn the other hand, protecting the individual, ensuring public order and family privacy, and providing young people with a healthy education are our red lines. The balance of democracy, freedom and security is indispensable for us. Unfortunately, digital media often see themselves above nation states; The fact that he is above the legislative, executive and judicial powers, and that he sometimes becomes a legislator, is discussed in Turkey, as in the rest of the world. Transnational digital networks Unfortunately, it has already become a place where drugs, women trafficking, cyber fascism, child abuse and lawlessness are rampant. We can never approve of this. “We think that this balance should be maintained in terms of both ensuring public order and protecting individual freedoms.”

“The phenomenon is a phenomenon of what?”

Yayman also touched upon the issue of content and donations, which have been the subject of controversy recently, and said: “Just as a woman undressing in a city square and people around her donating money to that person is against the normal flow of life, it is also against the normal flow of life digitally. We definitely think that we need to be more careful and more responsible here. This is not a warning that is valid only for TikTok. For us, Freedoms are important, but our family is even more important, Our children’s future is much more important. Here, it is never acceptable for digital network providers to use certain applications aimed at children, especially at a young age. We definitely want the age filter to be strictly applied. Regarding these issuesThere are some preparations at the BMM I would like to express. I would like to ask once again: What is the phenomenon? As a generation, we are people who have received such an education that goodness, virtue, mercy, humanity, conscience and being a righteous person are universal norms and that people should be good. It is never acceptable to be a phenomenon of evil, lies, drugs and many other addictions that I cannot mention here.” he said.

TikTok spokesperson announced that they are taking precautions

TikTok Middle East, North Africa, Turkey Region Public Policy Manager and Turkey Spokesperson, who made a presentation after Yaman’s speech. Emre Gelen, He stated that more than 1 billion people around the world use TikTok every month, and that this figure reaches 10 million in Turkey. In the incoming presentation, “As a platform, the responsibility of keeping the TikTok community safe is one of the most important issues for us. As you know year 2023 both in the world; But it has been a very difficult year, especially in our country. This situation has placed the responsibility on us, as a platform, to carry out our activities with greater care. First of all, the earthquake disaster that we experienced in February and whose pain we still feel, the subsequent elections that took place in such a difficult atmosphere, and of course the regional conflicts that are still ongoing. as TikTok In such a difficult year We believe that we gave a good exam. We have implemented proactive and preventive measures throughout these incidents to ensure the security and integrity of our platform and the millions of people who come to TikTok every day. We implemented this proactive attitude both to ensure the safety of TikTok users and to protect the social sensitivities of our country.” he said.

TikTok argues that it is taking proactive measures.

worldwide more than 40 thousand Gelen stated that TikTok employees are responsible for security and that moderation teams are among these employees.Our moderators monitor content around the clock to ensure it meets the high standards we set in our community guidelines. We will remove any content that violates our community guidelines whenever possible. as soon as possible We are investing heavily in our technology, including artificial intelligence, to ensure we have the systems and processes to handle it. One of the issues we particularly focus on is Restrictions on users under 18 years of age and to increase the control of families in this process. We offer parents the opportunity to monitor and control their children’s TikTok use with the ‘family pairing mode’ that we developed to highlight safe digital experiences. With the screen time management feature, families can determine and control the time their children can spend on the application. Moreover, under 16 years old On users’ accounts, we have disabled ‘direct messages’ by default and increased user security by limiting content that is not suitable for all audiences with the ‘restricted mode’ feature. With these features, as TikTok, we continue our efforts to provide a safer and more conscious experience in the digital world and continue to lead the industry in this field.” said.

Incoming words “Every day, even every minute billions of content being produced. Our technology and moderation teams handle this high usage correctly most of the time. But the truth is that sometimes we can over-moderate or interfere with events. We may not be able to meet the expected speed. I want you to know that our aim is; Our goal has always been to ensure that our community has a safe, positive and fun experience when they come to TikTok; for both young people and families. While doing this, we try to comply with the laws, regulations and expectations of our country, as well as take social sensitivities into consideration. We take utmost care. From now on, we will continue to increase our efforts in this field together with you and all our stakeholders.” He finished as follows.