Crackdown against social media? The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, does not rule out banning TikTok in the European Union if she is re-elected to lead the Commission. “It is not excluded,” she said in the spitzenkandite debate in Maastricht, answering the question whether, in the event of a renewal of her mandate, she would ban TikTok in the EU due to its links with China, as the United States is evaluating . The EPP candidate underlined that the European Commission was “the first institution in the world” to ban the installation of TikTok on its company phones and that it knows “exactly the danger of TikTok”.
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Replying to the number one of the EU is Matteo Salvini, who on the social network in question goes on the counterattack: «But with all the problems that exist in Europe and that Italian families have, the president of the European Commission, I hope for a little longer , Ursula von der Leyen, says ‘I don’t rule out banning TikTok, banning TikTok’. I read it three times to see if she was joking or not. Here – the leader of the League and deputy prime minister adds – there is a problem of security, work, unemployment, wars, and the president of the European Commission, not mine and I hope for a little while longer, says ‘ban TikTok? I won’t rule it out. Can I say long live freedom of thought and speech, everywhere? And the Europe that I have in mind – Salvini clarifies once again – is not that of taxes, bans, regulations, gags, censorship and wars. Ursula, long live freedom.”
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