TikTok could be banned in Europe. This is what the president of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, said: «It is not excluded», she said during the debate with the other candidates for the European elections underway in Maastricht, «that Tik Tok is banned because the Commission was the first institution to ban it on the cell phones of our officials. We know its danger.”
In the US, a law was approved on March 13 that provides for the banning of the platform if it does not separate from its parent company ByteDance, the Chinese holding company that controls it. ByteDance, which has announced its intention to appeal against the law, has six months to sell the platform to Western capital.
As written here, «the app, created in 2016 and then merged with the already launched Musical.ly in 2017, has grown in popularity vertically, reaching more than a billion active users every month, with the United States in the front row in terms of number of users (in March last year, TikTok celebrated 150 million users per month). Almost since its inception, however, the Chinese-owned brand has faced Western doubts about the security of its processing of user data and its ties to the Beijing government.
Among the first to react to Von Der Leyen’s words is the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini: «The Europe that I have in mind is not one of taxes, bans, regulations, gags, censorship and wars. Ursula, long live freedom.”
