Overview
- A knife attack at a Torreón secondary school on Thursday, Oct. 1 killed a member of school management and wounded four people, and two 18-year-old brothers who are former students were detained and handed to prosecutors.
- The federal government has set up a multidisciplinary working group led by the Presidential Legal Counsel and including the SEP, SSPC, CNI and academic experts to draft a decree that would obligate platforms to detect, report and promptly remove content that directly incites violence.
- Officials say the draft decree is to be presented next week and would also require platforms to coordinate with authorities and demonstrate they protect children, while the CNI will step up monitoring of social networks, messaging services and forums to spot risky content.
- Education measures to accompany the digital rules include expanding the SEP program 'El ABC de las Emociones', installing confidential tip boxes in schools, increasing parent outreach and exploring limits on minors opening social accounts without parental intervention.
- Experts warn technical and rights limits exist for takedowns — such as difficulty scanning private chats and the risk of overbroad censorship — and they stress that family supervision, school-based mental-health care and targeted prevention are essential complements to any platform obligations.