Lawmakers appeared unconvinced by TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s arguments before Congress, where he laid out the company’s plans to protect U.S. user data. Multiple lawmakers also flagged concerns about the app’s effects on mental health.
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Congress? And they can't even get his name right? 😂
America just need to come up with better app. I don't trust technology own companies and any technology company that gather information. If chinese government prohibits the sale of Tik Tok it is own by the co-own with China Communist party government. Any app that collect data need to be banned. Businesses can establish without Tik Tok. Tik Tok banned in India because it caused dispute between Himalayan borders caused 20 Indian soldiers killed and several others injured.
America need to come up with better competitive app.
Why is he acting busy writing or is he writing back to the CCCP!
TIK TOK is simple communist Chinese spying. It is a data gathering app for the communist Chinese.
Just make a US version or bring back VINE
1980 – Toshiba / japan
2013 – Alstom / france
2020 – Huawei / china
Today – TikTok / china
Any company growing stronger that surpassed US would be labeled as “threat” and would be banned..😅
Tiktok is trash anyways
Tik Tok will not be manipulated by any government, well except the CCP.
ByteDance is not owned or controlled by the Chinese government. What a BIG LIE.
A bunch of idiotic and ignorant "Congressmen and Congresswomen" just want to show off by bullying the CEO but instead the hearing exposed their stupidity and incompetency!
He is a liar and he is a spy for the Chinese government just be careful America
Is not unconvinced. Because most of them are asking stupid questions
oh look more 90 year old politicians that hate anything the youth does that isnt working 60+ hours a week. America is run by out of touch ancients.
The requirement of China's gov't for it's approval for the sale of any Chinese company which is mischaracterised as "against forced sale" is the legitimate right of any country to protect it's national interests. In TikTok's case, it is the success of it's business model, technology & IP of the algorithm powering the platform that is of immeasurable value that's preventing the sale. If another new app were to emerge in the future that could give TikTok a run for it's money, I doubt China's govt will stop it's sale. US too has banned the sales of many US companies to foreign interests in the name of national interests.
This shows how backwards is the US ! Again it takes a Chinaman to create the worlds largest social Apps !
“The Asian communist government” wow this is America
SILICON VALLEY is in the USA only America can make much better than
tik tok …..just ban this cheap made in China aap from the American soil
china is an communist undemocratic and unfreedomatic country it is capable of doing a lot of bad things
My USA is more better than Chiпa vagiпa i agree with USA a lot …….
India did it in 2020.
Tiktok is actually ruining peoples life it is a addiction.
Alibaba also private company but where is Jack Ma now. How is he doing now?
U.S must order Apple and Google ban all Communist app from their platform.
I love Tiktok! It's the best platform.
What use is the private data of teenage boys and girls using tiktok to China?
These data are not top military and trade secrets, are these?
This is so typical of making a mountain out of a molehill.
fake date number 1! 12.2 billion downloads!
Not just tik tok comes from China.
A lot of $$$$$$$$ from China – US $800 billion of T. Bill.
According to the BEA data, US imports of goods from China grew by 6.3 percent year-on-year to reach US$536.8 billion. A lot more things from China than just tiktok.
So if you want to decouple and cut China off from US, you have to stop borrowing money from China, stop importing all the goods from China.
But is it a sensible thing to do?
Furthermore China is not interested in private data of teenage boys and girls using tiktok. What's use is it to China?
These data are not military or trade secrets, are these?
7000 jobs and thousands of others relying on tic toc financially, hmmm, let's make them suffer.
The testimony makes clear what type of people are ruling USA.
I think , I guess, I speculate ……. this bunch of old congress should held legally liable if their statement had to merit of facts, the reason why their question and answer is so oppressing is because they knew they are not liable to any garbage they spit out.
I don't trust anything these chinese made, good riddance. That app is a curse
Wow
why dont you bring fb, google, whats app etc in the room? yeah, because they are collecting personal data from other countrieds for the US.
All the Congressmen attacking Asian companies. They did this in the 80s and early 90s to the Japanese companies. The Japanese haven't recovered.
Once upon a time a wise Chinese scholar said :- If your trust on what a Chinese says then you are either Dumb or Deaf.
And over years, US had been finger pointing without providing any evidence, i don't think the world should trust US government any longer.
With same standard, Facebook, IG and other US based app should be ban oversea.
Just Ban US! Let the rest of the world use it. lol
The security will never be enough given China US tension. Tiktok is the right app at the wrong time. It will definitely get banned unfortunately. Time to switch to reels or shorts
People ( include the Senators ) only believe what they believe.
Banned it's , we gonna see those untitled influencers grilled
At the core, US SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES ARE Losing out to foreign compnay in the market, so they call in the government who just pull out “national security” rabbit 🐇 from the head.
These US politicians are not even pretending to hide their hypocrisy. They have no problem with US social media dominating in other countries, reporting and storing data for the US government.