European Commission President considers banning TikTok in the EU
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, does not rule out the possibility of a ban on TikTok in the European Union. She said this during a debate in Maastricht (Netherlands), which was attended by leading party candidates for the 2024 elections, Politico reports.
“It’s not out of the question,” she said after the moderator mentioned the platform’s ban in the United States if the Chinese company ByteDance does not sell the social network.
At the same time, she emphasized that the European Commission was “the very first institution in the world to ban TikTok on our corporate phones.”
“We know exactly the dangers of TikTok,” added Ursula von der Leyen.
As a reminder, US President Joe Biden recently signed a law that will ban TikTok in the US if ByteDance does not sell the platform within a year. The document was previously supported by the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Soon after, informed sources said that ByteDance would rather choose to shut down TikTok in the United States than sell the platform if it exhausted all legal methods to fight the U.S. legislation banning the social network in the country.
