EU industry chief Thierry Breton said he took the decision after analysing the short video app’s risk assessment report and its replies to requests for information.
“Today we open an investigation into TikTok over suspected breach of transparency & obligations to protect minors: addictive design & screen time limits, rabbit hole effect, age verification, default privacy settings,” Breton said.
I welcome the investigation against TikTok, but find it weird that Mr Breton announces that on Twitter/X, or is it just me?
Why would that be weird? Which platform would you have preferred (other than Mastodon, I guess)?
I have read about this procedure yesterday and it was also on twitter, from the account of the Commission.
Well, I feel X broke as many rules as Tiktok, there’s not much difference between the two. The EU (and all others) should ditch both I would say. But that’s just my opinion.
I see. Well, I for one, think TikTok is definitely worse than Twitter because of its addictive nature, little user agency (you have almost no freedom of picking your own content, you are basically in the algorithm’s hands) and serious privacy concerns.
Twitter is by no means a great platform, it’s just that TikTok is SO BAD that it’s actually hard to beat it in terms of shittiness.
I would add that the worst aspect about Tiktok is that it mainly targets children
