Más Madrid proposes a public application to report cyberbullying in dating applications

2023-04-27 14:31:04

A law against digital violence, a public application to report cyberbullying and protocols against gender violence in dating applications. These are the three measures proposed by Más Madrid. Your candidate for the regional presidency, Monica Garciahas denounced on his Twitter account that the 57% of women on Tinder have felt pressured to have sex, a data extracted from the survey that took the report ‘Apps without violence’ of the Federation of Young Women.

García, along with the candidates for the Assembly Loreto Arenillas and Tesh Sidi, met with the organization specialized in cyberbullying MujeresTech and the association of women jurists Themis, a meeting that has served to detail the proposal for a law against digital violence with in order to tackle this problem from prevention. “We propose a comprehensive protection law against digital violence, prevention tools for cyberbullying, violence in social networks, partner control through applications, the non-consensual sexting and the different types of violence that are exercised in the digital sphere”, he has listed.

It has also put on the table the complicity that the Administration could have with dating apps like Tinder or Meetic to implement protocols such as those that exist in entertainment venues and that have been shown to work, as occurred in the Dani Alves case. “And when we get to Puerta del Sol we want there to be an application, a public app, in which the women who receive this harassment can have tools, accompaniment and institutional support from the government of the Community of Madrid”, announced the candidate. With this public app, victims of harassment would have at their disposal “all the tools to be able to report it.”

This public tool would be put at the service of dating apps, so that women who suffer some type of sexual violence with a user can report to the application information about what happened. I would have a chat and refer to the resources and information available to ensure safety. Más Madrid is already talking to dating apps, companies that are “concerned about this digital violence and harassment.” “Many women, more than 50 percent, feel intimidated and forced to some way to have sex in these dating applications”, warned Mónica García.

“We want there to be some ‘warning’ button that you can press and that you have an application where you can go”, the Más Madrid candidate detailed when announcing these tools that aim to “prevent, stop and report”. In addition, the application would be obliged to study each specific case and apply the protocol against sexual assaults in those in which it is required.