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TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified before Congress and was hit by fierce criticism from lawmakers, including calls for the app to be banned. #CNN #News
Watch lawmakers grill TikTok CEO over data concerns
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TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified before Congress and was hit by fierce criticism from lawmakers, including calls for the app to be banned. #CNN #News
This video is far too long for TikTok 👀
Of course, if it’s banned, TicTok customers will find an equivalent app (Google shorts, instagram?) I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t a lobbyist pushing this idea.
They should be looking at all platforms with access to so much data on people. In other words, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube etc
They need to get a conference of tech leaders to hold these interviews. Watching the Congresswomen ask these questions is cringe. All rhetoric, and they have no idea what they’re talking about.
I’m concerned about the cost to the taxpayer due to oversight by sifiusa if the data is stored in Texas. It took this committee to point out a threat of a gun against the chairwoman that ran for 14 days for TikTok to take it down.
Remember tiktok is not permitted in china, they have another app that doesn’t track and has better handle on dangerous content. Chew keeps saying lots of people like our app and we are very concerned about security and content, no hard facts!
Our own US Govt’ can’t be “100% certain” about anything…
Lets not forget that Facebook lobbied to make this happen.
Thank you Mr Chew for uniting democrats and republicans together 🤝🤝🤝🤝
imagine the reaction of the tik tok influencers losing their only job when tik tok gets banned
They should ban all (anti)Social Media apps. They are a rot on society
They have already made up their mind to ban TikTok.
Not a huge fan of what tiktok is doing to further stupidity in youth today, but jeez they didn’t even let the man talk, you can see it on his face like “can I fricken speak?” How Can we ever be better when we Always look like assholes in every thing we do?
in hindsight, it makes sense now why zuckerberg acted like such an alienrobot. he knew how exploitative and manipulative the data collection is.
0:08 How can the “lawmakers” be “convinced” when they clearly went into the hearing with *preconceived* notions? LOL
Shou actually handled this VERY well because the meeting was literally pre-designed to just grill him about TikTok. No matter what kind of answers he were to give to them it wouldn’t have been enough PLUS most questions were not even YES or NO able answers (e.g. does chinese engineers have access to data: of course they have to have it cuz their nationality is chinese and even if they were to be working in Singapore and have a Singapore passport that wouldn’t matter to the lawmakers so it’s a question to favor the lawmakers) OR how they accused Shou with cherry picked factually wrong evidence on some cases which really diminishes their ability to ask legitimate questions that they can legitimately say that TikTok is bad for America.
All social media platforms are about how users use it and the companies can only do so much with moderation. Users are like viruses; they will always create something that would grab anyone’s attention to boost engagement regardless of what happens to others. That’s just how humans are. Maybe not all, but small groups can still do devastating damage. Instead of blaming algorithms and operations, every country should prioritize on education and overall human welfare to lessen bad actors that ultimately harm social platforms that was originally designed to have fun experience by sharing life with others.
I am not a fanboy of TikTok nor Shou but any critical thinker would agree that this hearing was just a scapegoat interview to ignore tackling the REAL problem (society) and just blaming on something else and getting rid of it will fix the problem. Violent games being the reason for mass shootings, anyone?
We to force American companies to give us simple yes or no answers during dispositions. They, along with our elected officials seem to dance around answers. They shouldn’t get a pass either.
I don’t mind tik tok get banned just as much as I don’t mind tweeters or instagram get banned. I somehow prefer ban them all.
I wish TikTok would just be banned world wide. So many people have lost all their social abilities. Others take after all those morons.
This CEO has a lot of work to get back to the Congress committee.
They should have included IT Specialist on the hearing. What the CEO is saying they are already in process and moving everything to USA, while partnering with American companies to ensure the demands are met.
They grilled him very well. His non-commital answers to either yes or no pretty much told us whether the responses were yes or no. He wasn’t allowed to squirm sideways.
Why would congress attack one company rather than implementing a data protection law? If you ban Tiktok, what’s to stop another company from doing the exact, same, thing…
The firewall doesn’t guarantee users’ security, because it can be accessed by reverse engineering the firewall or creating a backdoor – there’s are many techniques to bypass the firewall. So, the TikTok CEO should stop desperately convincing us that his platform is safe, especially when he cannot answer simple yes-or-no questions.
The only reason why they’re trying to ban TikTok is because it’s a Chinese own business. If TikTok was a UK old corporation, they would not question the risk that’s involved with the platform. And the fact that they want them to sell the company also brings in question the credibility of these lawmakers, as they only want TikTok to be sold to a US company.
Got to say, regardless of what happens to tik tok, its CEO is a goddamn fine smoke show. Damn, thats got to be one of the best looking CEOs I have seen in a while. My man looks sharp
Watching the whole thing made me actually like this guy. Congress is so dumb
You know it’s bad when our gov doesn’t now how internet works
It’s not the governments job to tell us what we can and cannot watch. We have so many other problems in this country and they focus on tik tok?! This is ridiculous……
US lawmakers: we think…we assume….we guess….u r guilty. 😓
from those congressmen and congresswoman’s speeches point if they banned TikTok – no more mass shooting in schools, no more bullying, bulimia, no more violence and etc. in American society.
These congressmen were definitely sponsored by Facebook and Google
They weren’t there to hear his answers, they spent 5 hours growling like hyenas against him. Tik Tok is so popular, and they’re not doing anything different than Meta, Google etc do to us. Everyone spies on us for their profitability
Data protection law should be implemented to all damn companies NOT on only one company
They just kept asking questions but didn’t allow Tiktok CEO answer those questions 😂