Tik Tok About To Be Thrown in the Bushes

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A high-stakes standoff between the U.S. government and social media app TikTok over a potential ban is set for a reckoning on Thursday when TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before a committee of House lawmakers.

The China-based app, which counts more than 150 million U.S. users each month, has faced growing scrutiny from government officials over fears that user data could fall into the possession of the Chinese government and the app could be weaponized by China to spread misinformation.

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There is no evidence that TikTok has shared U.S. user data with the Chinese government, but policymakers fear that the Chinese government could compel the company to do so.

TikTok CEO testimony on Capitol Hill updates:

Lawmakers press TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew over data security, misinformation and other issues.

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the jokes, but the gov is hitting

 

[Seoul Gleou]

tiktok could literally buy all the data meta, google, and microsoft have on us. so what the fukk are they talking about surveillance for

these fakkits got lobbied by Meta and are kicking the competition out of america because american firms cant compete


all that talk about capitalism and here we are: banks that suck get bailed out by the government, companies that suck get their opps kicked out by government. sounds real capitalistic to me

 

[Forsaken]

META products are banned in China. So fukkem.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

tiktok could literally buy all the data meta, google, and microsoft have on us. so what the fukk are they talking about surveillance for

these fakkits got lobbied by Meta and are kicking the competition out of america because american firms cant compete


all that talk about capitalism and here we are: banks that suck get bailed out by the government, companies that suck get their opps kicked out by government. sounds real capitalistic to me

Bolded is ridiculous.

Either way -- Google, Meta, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, YouTube, Snapchat, and so on are all banned in China. We should have banned TikTok years ago.

 

[Zime]

We know why they really want to ban it

 

[Seoul Gleou]

Bolded is ridiculous.

Either way -- Google, Meta, Twitter, and so on are all banned in China. We should have banned TikTok years ago.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

china doesnt claim to be free market; they can ban whatever the CCP doesn't agree with.
america claims to be a free market where competition is encouraged. the US government is being hypocritical on this (no one should be surprised by this)

american firms have been trying for over 20 years to capture the chinese market and have failed massively. not because the CCP kicked them out, but because chinese consumers like chinese products and services;

 

[kevin arnold]

Wow. Story time

 

[Silkk]

How you ban TikTok but not Onlyfans?

 

[humminbird]

How you ban TikTok but not Onlyfans?

Facebook hasn't gotten into the porn business yet

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

How you ban TikTok but not Onlyfans?

isn't onlyfans based in the UK? there isnt the same issue in regards to surveillance, UK is our friend.

that kind of moral panic about sex/porn is more of a red state issue, not a federal government issue. (at least not yet)

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I watched the entire hearing.... TikTok did themselves NO favors with absolutely terrible and evasive answers. I'm actually more certain it will get banned now.

 

[1thouwow]

tiktok could literally buy all the data meta, google, and microsoft have on us. so what the fukk are they talking about surveillance for

these fakkits got lobbied by Meta and are kicking the competition out of america because american firms cant compete


all that talk about capitalism and here we are: banks that suck get bailed out by the government, companies that suck get their opps kicked out by government. sounds real capitalistic to me

nikka shut up

 

[Windows 91]

How you ban TikTok but not Onlyfans?

Calm down son

 

[Dameon Farrow]

There will be a replacement IF anything happens

 

[MrLogic]

So where the c00ns gonna go to next?