Danish Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard said […] social media - naming Telegram and TikTok - were widely used to facilitate crime and that if it was up to him alone, some communication platforms would be geoblocked and shut down.
A TikTok spokesperson for the Nordics said the company had no comment on the ministers’ statement but added it was looking forward to working with the governments on the issue.
Telegram said that it abided by the EU’s Digital Service Act and that recruitment for illegal acts was forbidden on the platform.
Meta and X did not immediately reply to requests for comment.
That’s what I thought, too. Just shutting down won’t be enough, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. They should be regulated, and there must be a human being who can held accountable for what they do (very much as it is the case with ‘conventional’ media, and forcing them to make their code Open Source could be some measures).
We should definitely fight the root cause, but we should take away the gun of the shooter and rethink the gun policy, too.