Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama announced a one-year ban on TikTok on Saturday, accusing it of inciting violence and bullying, particularly among children. Since the November stabbing death of a teenager by another tee, authorities have held 1,300 meetings with teachers and parents.

Following Tirana’s decision, TikTok requested for “urgent clarity from the Albanian government” in the case of the stabbed youngster. The business said it had “discovered no indication that the perpetrator or victim had TikTok accounts, and many reports have in fact corroborated videos leading up to this crime were being shared on another platform, not TikTok

“To claim that the killing of the teenage boy has no connection to TikTok because the conflict didn’t originate on the platform demonstrates a failure to grasp both the seriousness of the threat TikTok poses to children and youth today and the rationale behind our decision to take responsibility for addressing this threat,” according to Rama. “Albania may be too small to demand that TikTok protect children and youth from the frightening pitfalls of its algorithm,” he said, accusing the platform of “the reproduction of the unending hell of the language of hatred, violence, bullying and so on.” According to domestic experts, Albanian children make up the country’s largest TikTok user base. Many young Albanians opposed the prohibition. “We disclose our daily life and entertain ourselves, that is, we exploit it during our free time,” said Samuel Sulmani, an 18-year-old in the town of Rreshen, 75 kilometers (47 miles) north of the capital Tirana, on Sunday. “We do not agree with that because that’s a deprivation for us.”

However, Albanian parents have grown increasingly concerned after hearing accounts of youngsters bringing knives and other things to school to use in fights or cases of bullying inspired by TikTok stories. “Our decision couldn’t be clearer: Either TikTok protects the children of Albania, or Albania will protect its children from TikTok,” according to Rama.