Alexei Pushkov, head of the Federation Council’s commission on information policy and interaction with the media, said that the US authorities showed an example of a “democratic approach” to social networks. So in you telegraph channel He reacted to the information that Washington threatened to block TikTok on American soil if its owner refused to sell it.
“An example of a ‘democratic approach’ to social networks. “As competition in world markets, including information and network resources, increases and ideological competition intensifies, the United States is increasingly resorting to prohibitive measures and political dictatorship.”
As the Senator points out, by acting this way with regard to TikTok, the United States is losing remnants of its “trademarks as a democracy.”
Earlier media, Washington’s requirements To sell the TikTok service from the Chinese company ByteDance or to be ready to completely block it in the United States. As noted, the main concern of the US authorities is the risk that the personal data of US citizens will be transferred in favor of a Chinese company.