CS Owalo Speaks on Regulating Night TikTok Live Sessions
Eliud Owalo, the ICT Cabinet Secretary, pledged on Wednesday, August 2, to control nighttime TikTok live sessions that have been reported for broadcasting immoral content.
According to Owalo, the government’s commitment to reducing the abuse of social media platforms includes the crackdown.
In particular, he made a suggestion that Kenyans would be protected from pornographic content published on TikTok by amending the Computer Misuse and Cyber Crimes Act.
He said: “We would go forward and do it in collaboration with other arms of government, like the National Assembly, if there are issues with workable recommendations by which we can improve the Act.
In the interview with NTV, Owalo also mentioned how his ministry would step in to prevent child exploitation on popular online platforms.
“The law is extremely clear about child exploitation. We have rules, but they need to be supplemented by individual responsibility in the digital world.
“A cultural and attitudinal shift is beginning. The law is there, but we skirt it, Owalo said.
A fine of no more than Ksh20 million may be imposed on anyone who intend to share or distribute child pornography under the Computer Misuse and Cyber Crime Act.
The Act states, in part, “Such a person commits and is liable, upon conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty-five years.”
The CS addressed complaints made by a number of people who also charged the government with being indifferent to explicit sexual content.
He did not say, however, when the government would put the plans into action or whether he would work with other ministries and the big tech companies.
Social media users have frequently turned to violating their privacy in order to generate money online.
CS Owalo Speaks on Regulating Night TikTok Live Sessions
