Actress and media personality Lolo1 has expressed strong concerns about the content on TikTok, calling for stricter regulation of the platform in Nigeria.
Speaking on News Central TV, Lolo1 said that TikTok lacks sufficient measures to curb indecent and vulgar material, citing the ease of accessing suggestive content online as troubling.
Lolo1 advocated closer content monitoring, including in local languages and suggested that some words should not be allowed on the platform.
According to her, she has stopped accessing TikTok, finding it terrifying and prefers Instagram.
She said: “I think pornography and nudity are things we shy away from. Now when we look at both men and women, before they used to lay indecent dressing at the feet of women. But now I see men dress as provocatively as women can. I’ve seen men wear things to make me look up because I don’t know where to look.
“The accessibility to photography is what is troubling to me, especially because we can’t actually put a lid on it.
“Social media is also as bad but to me Instagram is better, I have stopped accessing places like tiktok because it terrifies me. Tiktok is like a freeway into everything. I think they need to do something about it, I remain an advocate for some kind of limitation on social media or regulation.
“There are some words they shouldn’t allow on there and not just English. People on tiktok also use their mother tongue to say all sorts of rubbish too, very vulgar things”.
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