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Kenya Films and Classification Board has engaged Google to pull down a section of Squid Game series which has been circulated on Tiktok, Instagram and YouTube. They have engaged with the platform to form a joint team that will help local classification of content on the Netflix Platform.
“The Board has since written to Google requesting them to ensure that sections and scenes of the ‘Squid Game’ that have been recreated, distributed and exhibited on ‘YouTube’ are pulled down or made inaccessible to help in ensuring that the content is restricted to adults, “Said CEO KFCB Christopher Wambua.
This comes after the board has today issued new measures governing the watching of Squid Game a latest TV series on Netflix. The new measures will bar the sharing of sections of series terming them inappropriate for audiences under the age of 18.
The Board now wants parents, caregivers and guardians to be more vigilant and monitor the content their children are consuming on media platforms and guide them appropriately especially now we are approaching December Holidays when lots of children will be expected to be at home for holidays and festivities.
‘This year a Kenyan youth confessed to have murdered his parents and siblings on account of the influence of a film titled ‘Killing Eve’. Further, in 2017, another popular challenge game dubbed ‘Blue Whale’, allegedly led to suicide among teenagers in various parts of the world including Kenya,’ Said Wambua.
Wambua says KFCB and Netflix will roll out a joint sensitization programme to educate parents, guardians, teachers and caregivers on the available safeguards on the Netflix platform and that is meant to empower parents, teachers, guardians and care givers with information on the available parental control tools on Netflix to safeguard children from accessing age-appropriate content online, including Squid Game.