'Suspension' move from Spain for TikTok: Thousands of child abuse images drew reaction

The minority left coalition government in Spain demanded a ban on the social media platform TikTok.

Minister of Youth and Children, Sira Rego, announced at a press conference that they asked the Spanish Data Protection Agency to suspend TikTok's activities in Spain "as an exceptional measure."

Reminding that more than a thousand child sexual abuse videos have emerged on TikTok, a social media platform, Minister Rego said, "It is not within the authority of the government to temporarily suspend TikTok's activities. If it were up to us, we would have suspended it yesterday." he said.

Stating that they had meetings with the officials of the TikTok company and "committed to examine and evaluate the situation", the Spanish Minister said, "However, they offered neither a technical solution, nor a request for compromise, nor an audit, nor any verification mechanism." he said.

Following the sexual abuse videos of children on TikTok, the Ministry of Youth and Childhood also asked the Prosecutor's Office to take action at the beginning of the week.

Meanwhile, Spanish media stated that more than a thousand child sexual abuse videos with more than 48 million views on TikTok and more than 20 thousand potential pedophile profiles sharing or selling such materials were detected, and more than 7 thousand of them were operating in Spanish.