Monday, May 22, 2023

EU Commissioner Requires TikTok to Fully Comply or Severe Sanctions

EU Commissioner Requires TikTok to Fully Comply or Severe Sanctions

 

Competent EU officials suggested to Chinese short video application company TikTok on Friday (May 19) that if it wants to survive in Europe, it must improve in accordance with EU laws and regulations, and there is still a lot to do in this regard.

According to Reuters, the European Commission's internal market commissioner Thierry Breton (Thierry Breton) had a phone call with TikTok CEO Zhou Shouzi on Friday. Breton said he told Zhou Shouzi on the phone, “For now, (TikTok) still has a lot of room for improvement, such as stricter content moderation, avoiding excessive behavior, ensuring safe use of data, especially It's our children's data."

China is a centralized country controlled by the CCP. All Chinese companies are responsible for protecting national security. The CCP has made no secret that the databases of Chinese companies must be placed under the supervision of Chinese regulators. Out of national security considerations, the United Kingdom, the United States, and some member states of the European Union have all adopted varying degrees of restrictive measures on TikTok.

Last month, the European Union named 19 large online platforms and required them to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA) passed last year, including TikTok. The law stipulates that the named companies need to carry out risk management, conduct external independent audits, share data with EU member state governments and researchers, and abide by relevant codes of conduct.

Breton said that if the audit finds that TikTok has not fully complied with relevant laws in terms of data protection and copyright, "we will not hesitate to take comprehensive sanctions to protect our citizens."

The "Digital Services Act" was passed at the end of last year, and the relevant online content management regulations will come into force from August this year.

A few months ago, Breton had asked TikTok to comply with the EU data service law.

TikTok is the overseas version of Chinese video-sharing app Douyin, whose parent company is Chinese technology company ByteDance.

Europe and the United States are TikTok's main overseas markets. It has 150 million users in the US and 100 million in Europe, mainly young people.

The Associated Press quoted Breton as saying, "Young users bring greater responsibility," "Behind seemingly interesting and innocuous features, users need seconds to see harmful and sometimes even harmful features." Life-threatening content is unacceptable.”

The European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, the top decision-making body, have ordered their employees to delete the TikTok app on official devices.

At least 22 U.S. states have banned the use of TikTok on government devices for the military, Congress and state legislatures. The U.S. state of Montana announced a statewide ban on TikTok on Wednesday. This is the first state in the United States to order a ban on the use of TikTok.

In addition, countries such as Denmark and Canada have also adopted similar measures.

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