Prime Minister Edi Rama has instructed the parent company of the Chinese social network that there is no need to seek urgent clarifications on the decision to close the platform, saying that Albania decides this and not the owners of the TikTok algorithm.

Rama's reaction to X came after TikTok yesterday requested urgent clarifications from the Albanian government about banning the platform for at least a year.

"Banning TikTok for (at least) one year in Albania is not a hasty reaction to just one event, but a decision widely consulted with parent communities in schools across Albania. "TikTok doesn't have any clarifications it wants from Albania, because Albanians decide in Albania, not the owners of the TikTok algorithm," wrote Rama.

While Albania is too small to ask TikTok to protect children and youth from the terrifying pitfalls of its algorithm, Prime Minister Rama wishes TikTok would do so for the benefit of all humanity, including Albania.

"To say that the murder of the teenage student has nothing to do with TikTok, because the conflict was not generated by Tik Tok, means that you have not understood either the seriousness of the threat that that platform has brought to children and youth of this time, nor the thread of reasoning of our decision to take responsibility for the response to that threat", added Rama.

He recalled that over 90 percent of parents have requested the banning of TikTok in Albania.

"And when the overwhelming majority believes that the health of our children cannot serve the platform, but the platform must serve the health of our children, then our decision could not be clearer: Either TikTok itself must protect the children of Albania or Albania will protect its children from TikTok", concluded Rama.