Greens Call Tiktok Ban a Publicity Stunt, Opposition Wants Nationwide Ban

A sign up page for the application TikTok is shown on a cell phone in front of a screen with logos for the company in Sydney on April 4, 2023. Rick Rycroft/AP Photo

The Greens have called the federal government’s decision to ban TikTok on all government devices a publicity stunt to mask the Albanese government’s failings on data privacy across the social media spectrum.

Greens party digital rights spokesperson, Senator David Shoebridge, said that banning TikTok is not a serious reform and argued it could just be “the first hammer blow in an endless game of online whack-a-mole.”