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Lawmakers in Germany call for TikTok ban to be considered (www.euronews.com)
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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.

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[-] ECB@feddit.de 4 points 7 months ago

Now that the internet (and particularly social media) has become weaponized as a very cost-effective tool for cyber-warfare, it's basically inevitable that the fragmentation will continue to happen.

It's a bit uncomfortable because it goes against the idealism of the early internet which I still cling to, but I just don't see any way that the current situation is sustainable.

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