On the sidelines of Majilis session on April 22, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Culture and Information Aida Balaeva said the country should consider blocking access to TikTok, a video-driven social media platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance that has come under scrutiny in many markets for myriad reasons.
“In my opinion, I say as a minister, it needs to be considered,” Balaeva said, pointing to worries about what children see in the app (she mentioned specifically “swear words” and people acting as “almost fortune tellers”).
“Not all measures are popular, not all…
