Some German MPs on a parliamentary intelligence board think the country should consider a harder stance on TikTok.

Some politicians in Germany consider the app “a danger to our democracy,” says Roderich Kiesewetter, vice chairman of the Bundestag’s intelligence control committee and member of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), because it is an “important instrument” in China and Russia’s hybrid warfare.

Jens Zimmerman, a member of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, said that the government should consider at least banning the app on federal devices. This is the case for the EU institutions, for instance.

  • trebuchet@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The problem with applying existing laws is then you’re under the regime of rule of law, and TikTok could escape by complying with the law like anybody else.

    This is a xenophobic witchhunt, though, and that won’t do.

    • DdCno1@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Oh look, a variation of the sinophobia talking point that wumaos like to use so much.

      There is nothing xenophobic about reining in the CCCP’s disinformation, data collection and psyops tool.