5 August 2021 02:47 pm
A mechanism should be introduced to regulate or ban social media claiming that they have been the major cause for child abuses, Labour Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva said.
The Minister told Parliament that Sri Lanka had no proper laws to regulate social media which should be responsible for child abuses.
"Facebook, websites and other social media should be 90 percent responsible for the cases of child abuses. There are no laws in the country to regulate or ban social media. I have repeatedly brought this matter in the Cabinet," he said.
Speaking during the adjournment debate yesterday, he said no social media was operating in China.(Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera)