What happened: On Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified before the House Committee for Energy and Commerce, where he was peppered with questions about concerns over the popular app’s potential national security threats and its connections to China. Governments around the world banned the app on official devices, and there is concern that the app’s parent company ByteDance could be forced to cooperate with the Chinese government.
Among those who’ve heard of TikTok, only 39% of those younger than 30 support a TikTok ban, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll released Thursday. US Rep. Mike Gallagher, who represents Wisconsin’s 8th district, told CNN during its primetime special Thursday night that the government needs to address TikTok as a national security threat, despite the popularity of the app among younger voters.
Why aren’t you talking about the RESTRICT act and how it’ll put all social media at risk of being banned by an unelected position that has no checks and balances on top of non warrant surveillance of everything including private messages dontRESTRICTus
I don't understand why the creators should be blamed, they are relying on their own ability to make money no matter what, and not stealing or robbing.
That’s a smart way to go about it. Make fun of the ppl questioning you. Also pretty smart to answer questions with complicated answers.
Before such a publicized hearing it really does seem like they could have educated themselves a little better beforehand being LAWMAKERS, doesn't it? Seems like they would have learned this after other embarrassing tech hearings, but no chance of that. Not ever. 🤡
What are they gonna make fun of Congress on when the app gets banned, lol
Tiktokers got no right to make fun of anyone, they over there eating tide pod milkshakes n shit
Not just tiktok users, users of any social media. The questions being asked are embarrasing - 'Why does a sunglasses filter need to know where your eyes are' - 🥴🥴🥴 You'd think with technology being out for as long as it has these old people would know at least something
That is correct after we review the dialogue and we see they are in Child period in internet knowledge.
I don't get why they are picking on TikTok and not going after all the companies harvesting our personal data. It is all part of them trying to make China the bogeyman for the 2024 election (Fascism 101).
Just bring back vine, oh google killed it.
US GOVT FINDS IT HARD.......
This is a great example of how easy it is to manipulate a large group of people into thinking something is true when it’s kinda not. Oh no, China is spying through an app! Pay no attention to FB, insta and every other app tracking and gathering your data, then selling it.
The government's banning it her in the UK aswell
The half blind is questioning the bright - eyed why the world is so complicating! So this world might need to be locked up!
If it was a US company, they would go to war to protect it
Should be age limits in congress and the senate. They have to understand the internet and social media. I can’t shake the feeling that this internet thing might catch on.
More like they choose not to understand rather than 'fail to understand'.
This is exactly why we shouldn't have 100+ members of Congress that are over 70 years old. A dozen+ are over 80. We need age caps and forced retirement. Career politicians breed greed. No one should be working over 55 years old. Pass it on to the younger gen and go retire!
Lol
TikTok It's at least 10 times more stupid than Instagram.
Our country is run mostly by old men. Many were born decades before the first PC was born. They may want war, but they do not have to go to the front, the young and the poor will be.
Can we just admit that every and any congressional hearing is a complete waste of time, money and useless? When can we seriously unite against big government? Liberals lost their identity.
Yes we have
The boomers also think they can block an app. They don't have a clue. They should be in old folk's homes. For some reason I would rather China have my data than my own country. They probably won't be busting my door in.
Big grift cnn
Congress has already proven itself incapable of understanding how the internet works. We have short memories failing to recall Zuck and Cambridge Analytica collecting and selling meta data. OS platforms have to answer for this.
The politicians really should hire the pros (internet security experts) to ask the questions. Nothing worse than laymen bossing around the professionals.
No we've had enough of their corruption and the fact that they can just be paid for their votes by companies like meta. Them not knowing more about the internet than my parents is just a funny cherry on top.
A lot of opinions and very little data. All social media should have their use of data controlled. All are used by security agencies. Facebook has masses of data on you that the Police can access.
Most annoying people to ever exist have tik tok
For God’s sake, can you be at least one time on the side of America, USA’s interests? Why are you pedaling propaganda for tiktok?!
😂😂😂
How much did CNN receive from Tik Tok?
Tell us you're being paid off by the CCP without telling us your being paid off by the CPP
Why are old fossils making tech decisions for the rest of us?
TikTok is cultural cancer
Obey.
the ppl are cross referencing all the lies told by media and govt across the globe on tiktok... this is a censorship movement.. to act like they care about the herd's personal data security is quite funny, and manipulative
CNN demonstrating their unwavering fealty to the CCP
TikTok is retarded.
Why does CNN carry water for Communist China ?
we really need more gen-x and millenials running for office because the boomers are not equipped 😒
I don't know how we're pretending like this is a problem now
Sounds like the alcoholic leaving his/her first AA meeting saying they don't have an addiction problem while having a drink.
So you’re on the side of China.
Cancel tiktok but not assault rifles 🤡
TikTok is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. What else needs to be said?
Yea we only like American tech companies stealing out data and spying on us
Get a real job Tik Tok so called influences bunch of looser!
😂😂😂 fk China and TT
Why should a government employee have tiktok on a government issued phone to begin with?
If one has enough measurements to keep sunglasses on the face bobbing on the screen, it's enough to identify that face. Also, there is no way to tell whether China has access to their servers without access to audit info, which TikTok may not even have, so Chew can say anything.
Doesn't matter when our intelligence agencies knows more about the internet than any chineese.
CCP slaves
Tick-tock .. the mapping and gathering ..plus influencing low IQ activities for American youth.. Soviets missed this boat .. coulda changed the outcome of that Cold War …
What people are missing about data collection on instagram/facebook vs. TikTok is that American companies just sell it to advertisers, TikTok actively propagandizes youth to hold vehemently anti-American sentiment
The replies on this are truly frightening. We have no hope as a country. Somehow this is about race to people. Maybe actually learn something other than posting videos all day. Maybe open a book. Oh wait...
Ban this commie web site. Wipe it off the US map.
Screw that. Ban it. Let someone make the same thing in country. Commie news network at it again.
Who cares what TikTok creators want. The question you should ask is why do democrats support the CCP a country that is the largest polluter on the planet and enslaves millions who don’t worship the party. Thought Dems are supposed to stand for all the people.
But just TheDemocrats, right? Very few of the GOP had to sit there and read notes as they actually knew what they were talking about.
What's to understand? It's a series of tubes.
Pressing record on your phone doesn’t mean you know how the Internet works either.
I was rather surprise both Democrats and Republicans whipped out cans of whoopass!!! 😆
I hope the tick tock owners realize that not everybody is on tick tock I'm not and won't be
Says the China News Network
Hahahahaha 'creators.'
They understand how the internet works….They just want TIKTOK to say publicly they are a China company preying on Americans. Keep trivializing EVERYTHING 🤦♂️🤦♂️
So you have Team Steam Engine Dinosaur and Team Lowest Math/English Scores In Living Memory at each other's throats on this. 🤷♂️
Shows how powerful this platform has control over this entitled generation.
Can someone ask members of Congress if they think Singapore is part of China? I have a bad feeling.
Twitter users too. Some of their videos have made it to Twitter. They should be sued for anti-competitive behavior. If privacy and user security is really an issue, regulate, regulate, regulate! Tiktok, Meta, Google will have no choice but to comply.
Why are people defending this Chinese platform so strongly? It's weird.
It's just a bunch of tubes
Wait till you hear the politicians that want gun control and the silly things they say. Same thing.
Kinda like drug users getting pissed if there dealer is arrested.
They hate Tiktok because it has brought so many together and most on TT out smart Congress you know the Government. Both sides don't want unity or anyone out smarting them. Plus fb and Instagram are losing money. It's all about control, money and power that's it.
I think the most surprising thing to me is how many members of the military use it and where they do. I’m shock that hasn’t been banned yet.
TikTok should be banned for all the obvious reasons. In addition, all social media should be banned for under-age kids for all the obvious reasons. Dopamine of today is like the nicotine spiking of 40 years ago with Big Tobacco. WE KNOW THIS.
Silly of them to think they were there regarding the workings of social media. It was about using them for their clown show click bait.
Selfish people wanting to stay on TT for $$ exactly why China is going to eat our lunch.
They don’t understand how economics work either.
Tiktok 'creators' are morons
Everyone has had enough with old people not knowing how technology works.
How much did the CCP pay you to write this?
They just want TikTok banned because it was a major influence in the last election. Those young folks really pushed the others out there to vote. If they’re truly worried about data, they’d also go after Meta, Twitter, Google, and any other social media
They have congress members in their 70’s and 80’s .. what do they expect?
cnn = Fake News
This article seems like Chinese propaganda. Mostly app users are naive to what can be accomplished with controlling the algorithm and data.
Tiktok is trash for trash people
That’s why we need to shut down TikTok. We can’t allow TikTok creators to challenge the role of our main stream media.
Old people trying to regulate what they don't understand.
They actually don't start with your guns. They start with your voice.
Ban TT & additionally buy American only
Clearly the TikTok creators do not understand the APP is a means & method for a foreign government to easily sway the simple minded American public's opinions & ideology, while spying on them. These are the exclusive domains of the U.S. Government & its political leaders. /s
Tiktok uses very different info gathering, surveillance and targeting techniques. TikTok is heavily influenced by the CCP the others are not. China wants to fight the US. Ppl don’t understand that! They just enjoy watching little kids dance.
Imagine simping for the CCP and China. Typical America hating Democrat owned behavior.
I think they understand perfectly
It felt like trying to teach your parents how to set the clock on the VCR, they never used it and were never going to understand it.
So is the rest of the world
The United States will never catch-up to China or Russia in technology or space. As an example, Russia already has an AI woman giving weather forecasts on a TV network five times a day. I can think of a few US network journalists who could be 'upgraded'...
And maybe the TikTok users don’t understand the risk.
Facebook, twitter, Instagram and many other social media sites and search engines are banned in china because CCP doesn’t want them gathering its citizens data.
They don't understand that TikTok is cancer for young people? I think they understand perfectly.
Maybe they do, but US Congress is pretty afraid that all that information shared globally is not controlled by them. That doesn’t go over very well with their plans of mass adoctrination.
The CCP thanks CNN for their service
Funny how little booger eaters know everything.....
“Does TikTok connect to WiFi? CEO: yes if your phone is. If it’s not then the app isn’t 😂😂
Many Congress members do not have a working understanding of the US Constitution, either.
Tik tok allows CCP officials to gather your data. It’s very simple.
They don’t understand how the Internet works any better than Congress does, but if it means they can continue to waste half their lives on a Chinese propaganda application, they are happy to attack their own Congress.
All social media should be civilized. No more fake accounts. Having an account on any social networking site should be conditional upon verification of an identity document.
I can't Xi any problem with TikTok.
I watched one TikTok and now I worship Satan
Tik tok “creators” can find a real job instead