“Just because the wrong people say the right thing doesn’t make the right thing wrong.” This was my slogan for the Swiss Media Publishers Association #SaysfromSwitzerland.
The sentence applies even if it refers to US President Donald Trump. His aggressive tweets against China and Tiktok contain unpleasant truths. Kai Strittmatter, a long-time China correspondent, has germany rcs data provided enough documents in his book "The Reinvention of Dictatorship. How China is Building the Digital Surveillance State and Challenging Us with It" that 100% justify the redistribution of the global network, including the tying back of the PRC services. Amy Webb also shows in her book "The Big Nine" how dangerous the Chinese tech titans are for all Western democracies.
Most European data protection officers have been concerned about TikTok for some time, but also about Huawei. In Germany, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution has even actively warned against TikTok. And Netzpolitik.org has found that TikTok systematically suppresses videos of political protests and all keywords related to the Tianamen Massacre of 1989, although the service denies that the content is deleted due to politics.