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Krystal and Saagar react to some of the most ridiculous moments from the hearings in Congress on whether or not to ban TikTok.
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The U.S government should have passed data privacy legislation a long time ago.
‘We never build a cage for the creature BEFORE we build the creature’ – Richard Feynman
That Wi-Fi question was truly embarrassing 😂 we need new blood frfr
Congress: are you spying on people.
Tik Tok: No where close to the degree of the US government.
The questions are much more humiliating and revealing than the answers.
If you’re talking over someone, only giving them yes or no answers and not letting them answer, then that’s not humiliation…
TikTok algorithm doesn’t give outsized advantage to relatively larger accounts, which results in a much more decentralized ecosystem than other video platforms. On TikTok you’ll encounter more real people expressing themselves rather than the so-called “opinion leaders”. Consequently, it’s a platform where it’s harder to manufacture consent, or at least for now, before the establishment figure out a way (they always do, as with every new form of media over the history). And this of course is a threat to the power of the US political establishment.
The Wifi question was vital. The congressman asked in a series of questions about the app using your wifi network to access data on your other devices not linked to TikTok. The app discloses this in the TOS saying that TikTok will access your keystrokes and data on devices that do not have the app installed. So your private laptop including camera, passwords, and files are potentially vulnerable. This line of questioning was very important.
When it comes to the Wi-Fi question, Saggar shows how dangerous it is to assume the Verge is right about anything.
I believe in small government, but the exception I always made is saying we need a Department of Technology to be the nation’s IT dept. It’s insane how far out of touch policy makers are, and why they’re so easily manipulated by big tech.
I just want to say thank you to Saagar for acknowledging that just because the Chinese Gov. says they are communist/ socialist, does not actually mean that they are doing those things all the time.
my problem with tictok (or any app really) is that they all require you to give them permission to access every thing on your phone (like contacts and stuff) and i think that’s going a bit far to post a clip of your cat
Part two of this segment because we obviously can’t handle it all in one sitting.
I remember when Donald Trump loudly tried to get rid Tik Tok and he received push back!
Why is this suddenly a big deal again when this could have been done years ago?!
I thought the TikTok CEO did well
Rep: are you spying
Ceo: no we operate the same way american social media companies do
Rep: so you… are?…
Usually people don’t care how their information is being collected. Imagine if they were convinced that they should. That would be a huge blow for the internet as we know it, not just TikTok.
I think TikTok CEO was stunned at their low level of IT knowledge but tries not to show it. Instead he pretended that all those were difficult questions just to humour them 😝
I wish they would come down this hard on Facebook, Google and all that other shit because they collect the same data
What Krystal said at the end is right. If they want young people to buy into this, they need to create privacy regulations that give consumers protection against data collection from the entire market facebook/Instagram/twitter/tiktok/etc. Banning a specific company doesn’t solve anything on its own, and the idea that the government gets to ban what apps we can use is a terrible precedent.
They deserve the political blowback for what they are trying to do, I hope young people come for all their jobs.