“While U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance used the Munich Security Conference to emphatically highlight the limits of illiberal control fantasies to the EU elites, von der Leyen and her allies continue undeterred on their path of acting as a moral censorship authority. Now TikTok is under fire — a platform that many young people value precisely because of its unfiltered content, seeing it as a space for free expression.
The real reason: because parties like the AfD — and many other patriotic movements across Europe — are able to reach millions on TikTok, the Brussels power cartel sees the platform as a thorn in its side. This is no longer about data protection or regulation — it is about total control over information and opinion. Those who think critically are to be silenced.
Free speech is the Achilles’ heel of any liberal order, and today it is being attacked by Brussels under flimsy pretexts. We stand firmly and unconditionally for digital freedom of expression. The European Commission must immediately end its ideologically driven course of censorship.”
