President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday ordered a ban on the use of the Chinese-owned social network TikTok in the country, arguing that his government guarantees freedom of speech.
The CEO of TikTok appeared last Thursday in front of US lawmakers, who are calling for a ban on the application in the country, because they think it is a tool used by China and provides content that can harm the mental health of children. America.
“We don’t stop here, we don’t stop here,” said López Obrador, when asked in his morning interview about the United States’ approach to the digital platform and the measures taken against it in other countries.
Full freedom, we have no concern of this kind and the free expression of ideas is guaranteed and we stop it, we stop it,” added AMLO from the National Palace.
He was previously a leading critic of Twitter and Facebook for suspending Donald Trump’s accounts because of the former US president’s use of those platforms to report fraud in the November 2020 elections, denied by local elections.
In the United States, TikTok said it has spent more than $1.5 billion on what it calls a stricter data security effort under the name “Project Texas” and contracted with Oracle Corp to collect US user data.
In Britain, the government banned the app from government phones in the middle of the month and last week parliament announced it would block security measures on its network, while France announced it would block its use among government officials. which they will not be able to have in their mobiles.
