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    9 months ago

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    Roderich Kiesewetter, vice chairman of the Bundestag’s intelligence control committee and member of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), told German daily the Handelsblatt that the country should consider a “general ban on TikTok” if stricter regulation of the platform can’t be “implemented efficiently”.

    Some politicians in Germany consider the app “a danger to our democracy,” Kiesewetter continued, because it is an “important instrument” in China and Russia’s hybrid warfare.

    Jens Zimmerman, a member of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, said, according to German broadcaster BR, that the government should consider at least banning the app on federal devices.

    The act, which came into effect this year, requires Internet companies to take consistent action to make sure disinformation and illegal content are not being spread on their platforms.

    In February, the European Commission announced an investigation into TikTok under the DSA for breaches related to “the protection of minors, advertising transparency, data access as well as risk management of addictive design”.

    The statement added that the DSA can as a last resort put in place a temporary “suspension or restriction of access of recipients to the service,” if they don’t comply with the legislation.


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