US want to ban TikTok, because it’s a Chinese company, it has nothing to do with privacy, while in the EU a service must fullfit the GDPR to be allowed to offer their service in the EU and DeepSeek, among others, don’t. This has a lot to do with the privacy rights in the EU, those which in the USA don’t exist, not with censorship.
Privacy is a basic right in the EU and not even the Police can access sensible personal data or track your activity without an court order, less aprivate company for advertising reasons or for training their AIs.
But yes, right wing politicians in Germany want to change this, but this isn’t so easy in a working Democracy where it need to be approved with a majorit in th Bundestag.
This is not protecting peoples privacy but straight censorship. Just like how US wanted to ban TikTok.
US want to ban TikTok, because it’s a Chinese company, it has nothing to do with privacy, while in the EU a service must fullfit the GDPR to be allowed to offer their service in the EU and DeepSeek, among others, don’t. This has a lot to do with the privacy rights in the EU, those which in the USA don’t exist, not with censorship. Privacy is a basic right in the EU and not even the Police can access sensible personal data or track your activity without an court order, less aprivate company for advertising reasons or for training their AIs. But yes, right wing politicians in Germany want to change this, but this isn’t so easy in a working Democracy where it need to be approved with a majorit in th Bundestag.