TikTok threatened with suspension in Morocco?

Social media applications are in the sights of Hanan Atrakin. In an oral question, the elected official draws the attention of the Minister of Digital Transition and Public Administration Reform to the fact that many applications "compete to attract a wider audience with ’criminal’ practices and behaviors according to the laws in force". She therefore calls on Ghita Mezzour to intervene to protect their users, especially minors, but also to apply legal sanctions against social media users who have been found guilty of violations punishable by law, according to Al3omk.

Stressing that begging, harassment, commerce without respect for legal provisions, the offer of medical consultations without authorization, among others, are widespread on social networks, the PAM deputy notes that all these practices are framed by laws when they are committed in reality, but that they escape the responsibility and authority of the law when they are carried out in a virtual space, which makes these behaviors "criminal in one context and authorized in another".

Based on these findings, the deputy then calls on the government to follow in the footsteps of many countries "by banning certain applications with a significant negative impact, by regulating access, by restricting the use of these applications by minors, and by strengthening measures against those who use them as a means of subsistence".