'Would You Agree That TikTok Is Controlled By The CCP?': Dan Crenshaw Doesn't Let Up On TikTok CEO
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- At today's House Energy Committee hearing, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) questioned the CEO of TikTok.
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Imagine if congress put in this much effort in actually improving American lives - such as infrastructures, healthcare, social security and education.
same goes for china. a lot of vanity projects yet healthcare is not free for you there
@@nesttea2239 Healthcare is not free but the healthcare in China will not bankrupt you.
@@nesttea2239 how does pointing out another's shortcomings fix yours?
@@nesttea2239 in what country is healthcare totally free? Cuba?
It all caused by China!
So proud of our law makers. They managed not telling the Singaporean "go back to China" throughout the 5+ hours.
Lmfao incredible self control
They can’t find Singapore on the China maps that’s why😂
his name is 周受资. he IS ethnically chinese.
@@dfsdh432v9 And the only ethically American are the native one , your point ?
@@PicesQ he is ethnically chinese.
thats a fact. 50cents
🤭
Watching congress ask questions about TikTok was like watching my dog afraid of it's shadow. They are literally too dumb to understand the questions they are asking.
hope you will never be asked by them, you will only understand when you are in taht CEO's place. Dumb questions leave a lot of room for answers, and one slip will be enough to cause you long time jail or huge fines
For me, watching Tik Tok's CEO responding to committee's questions was like watching a dog chew on a shoe.
@@charmainejames9539 because he’s giving valid answers?
@@jimmychiang4495 but your fine with facebook doing what they want and getting away with it
@@f.m.bproductions7197 Nope, you make too many assumptions.
Jesus, haven't seen so many bots united in one single place!
It's amazing how united Congress can become with the power of Insider Trading.
China itself has banned tiktok along with other American apps like WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, TH-cam, google , instagram , …. That’s how china got rid of competition.. any Chinese who use those apps will be arrested .. do anyone you know this ? Do you know they promote hatred towards west and America in Chinese version of tiktok douyin .. understand the real threat .. be thankful finally American comes together for common threat .. evil ..
Meh, despite what sounds bites they make to sound good ie captain Crenshaw and and his 1st mate Ted Cruz, all they do is talk. These people stand for sound bites not justice.
@@Lazyguy2112 Comparing The Rhino Crenshaw and Ted Cruz is just disingenuous and smells of biased propaganda.
Rules and laws only apply like you and me but not them.
@@Lazyguy2112 - I agree. However, I think Crenshaw has some genuine scruples, unlike Cruz. Crenshaw also seems smarter than Cruz. You’re right though: Crenshaw was just looking for sound bites. Crenshaw knows that China is communist in name only. Yes, the Chinese government plays a huge role in the Chinese economy, but the Chinese economy is clearly profit-driven (capitalist), and Crenshaw knows this. Crenshaw is pandering to Republicans who think China is an old-school communist regime, so he says the word “communist” as often as possible.
Also, Crenshaw knows that our government has pretty easy access to personal online information. I suspect that our privacy “safeguards” are pretty flimsy. He’s right that China has no privacy protections whatsoever, but it really boils down to China’s access to “private” information on TikTok. I think the idea that American TikTok is safe from Chinese government snooping is ridiculous.
TikTok finally learning how important lobbying/bribing is in America.
@Hikaru This guy is prob a CCP propaganda account lol
in China. Non-public lobbying. is illegal. belongs to "collusion"
bribe.
Including relatives and children need to investigate whether there is a pass-through of benefits.
who lobbyed and bribed ? whoever it was spent alot of money buying every single last chair member .
Take it easy wu mao
@@johnreagal8671
China has state media.
But there are plenty of cents on the Chinese web.
Moreover, the U.S. government has publicly formed a team that "understands Chinese" to operate.
why senators not allow him to answer full sentences?
Because then their bs falls apart
B/c he didn't want him to waste his time with his b.s & word play!!.
Never forget: Dan Crenshaw owns Meta (i.e, Facebook) stock and should have declared his conflict of interest
You realize meta is forced to hand over data to US if asked
Tik tok is not
@@ssing7113 Which proves my point exactly: The Chinese government can't harm me with my data, the NSA, FBI, et. al. Can. It's the same reason why I use Russian VPNs: zero cooperation with the authoritarian US security state
@@ssing7113 You realize that you just admitted that the U.S. controls American social media companies.
@@ssing7113 No,Any company in the US can't say "No" to the government!! or you will be in trouble....
No he does not. CCP alert here.
The original sin on Tiktok is that its parent company is from China, and everything from China is evil from the US sight, the cheap home tool and apparel is ok, but hell no to the high end device and apps, I am so scared.🤣🤣🤣
Lol not really. Their main concern is that the Chinese are smart enough to ban all Western social media apps because they know what social media can be used for, especially in mind control. In quantico there are courses where agents are trained on propaganda and mind control using social media. Its pretty serious in the national security world
This fraud literally made up things that don't exist "yet". Problems that don't exist "yet" with TikTok.
Yet they DO exist in Facebook , Instagram, Twitter, DoJ, FBI, ATF, DoD , DHS,CIA...
After this whole hearing and looking everything up as it went on.. TikTok isn't the enemy and I'm not even sure china is who they propagandize them to be
Wonder if the slaves in the Chinese labor camps making high end devices are scared.
You have no idea the parts, as tiny as switch buttons ,of your "high end device and apps" came from where right?
What we have In our hands all day is worse than anything associated with any one app. Whether it be owned by bytedance, CCP, or even worse, the CIA, FBI Etc.
This is purely projection. "Look what THEY will do to you!" Shouts the wailing congressmen, while his cronies and associates are robbing and raping the public out in the open, doing everything they're accusing everyone else of and more.
Congress “Can you buy dance ?”
Mr Chew “No, I don’t want to buy you a dance. “
We are the Congress. We will let you speak only if your answers align with what we want to hear.
'Destroying our society from within' - what does Crenshaw think has been happening via existing social media platforms before TikTok even arrived on the scene?
Not the point. The point is now it’s being facilitated at a high level by the ccp
Yes may this be the beginning of unification against the Injustice that even consciences of Democrats and the wayward in the Republican party. Are truly enlightened that the unified against the Injustice has Even in our own society as there are many. Without the Injustice of unjust lockdowns unjust mandates censoring bullying coordinating Biden wouldn't be in the white house he knows it they all know what they admitted it their consciences made them admitted. They know thank God people have rejected their ideologies and agenda which is why they're resorting to dirty tactics. Which is why they are using women and children at the border to create a voter base of illegals which is why they're bribing them they're desperate it's honestly really sad you're so desperate for a title the so desperate for their agenda that they're resorting to all the failed ideologies of failed regimes throughout history. may God wake people up that it's not worth it to go to hell for biden's current ideology and agenda if he repents and bears fruit where they repented then you can praise God then you can pray that he keeps on doing the right thing until then people have a biblical duty to go against Biden and his wayward corrupt regime!!
What matters forever is knowing Jesus Christ Nazis communist temporary power grabs.
They only will exist as God allows them to exist when God moves in a vengeful and definitive way all these regimes will be ended forever as the kingdom of God shall reign and those who love Jesus Christ shall be up in there raising the lord's name on high in the power of the holy Ghost.
Crickets when it comes to Faux News though.
First off, TikTok in my opinion and personal experience has been significantly more detrimental than any and all other social media that existed prior to TikTok. On top of that, the concern is that the CCP is actively and directly profiting off of it. Not necessarily saying it’s better in my opinion for US companies to do the same thing, but in the eyes of the government the CCP is the real enemy in this issue.
When tiktok came about, social media was very much on a downward spiral, it was starting to die. Kids had less and less interest in Instagram because of how blatant their abuse of their users is whether direct or indirect, Facebook had been basically coined as an old person app, nobody with a net worth less than a million bucks actually gives a shit about Twitter, really the only viable thing left was Snapchat. TikTok changed all of that, it’s done infinitely more damage to our society in its short lifetime and it continues to as we speak. It’s also extremely difficult to turn off. I have never, ever seen someone sucked into social media the way people have been with tiktok. Hours upon hours upon hours of mind numbing short videos and nobody can turn it off. When it was just Facebook and Instagram, you might see someone scroll for a couple of hours at a time on a bad day, nowadays seeing someone spend several hours a day on tiktok is commonplace. Tiktok has been and always will be the worst thing to happen to social media in this decade. I don’t see how anything could be worse.
I’m a liberal and I would rather have American bad actors harvest and misuse my data than Chinese bad actors.
Whatever TikTok’s is doing, our domestic apps are doing. Difference is these folks are getting their cut.
Difference is TikTok is owned by a Chinese Company, with the CCP as board members.
No company is as bad as Tik Tok though. I mean nothing of substance is going on Tik Tok. Just idiots dancing and Woke propaganda
根据中国的国安法，所有企业和个人，都有义务向政府提供情报和协助。否则就是犯罪行为。中国的企业即使不愿意，也不得不配合中国政府搜集资料。
更何况，中国政府做任何事情不需要根据法律，比如你骂市长，骂县长，就会坐牢。所以中国政府需要企业的数据，一个电话就可以，如果企业主不想去坐牢。
@@user-wn1oq6xg5h no one here can read that
@@TheTranceCartel I can😊. And there’s the translation button.
People think this is about privacy. Nope, this is about "cmon guys you got a lot of money, give some to us"
Exactly. They always want their piece of the pie.
How so?
@@a.s.2426 as just happened, the US govt asked Tiktok to sell its shares
The U.S. government has made no such order yet. It’s only one possibility being discussed.
Bottom line is that you don’t need to look for any ulterior motive here. The issues raised are legitimate whatever the collateral benefit might be to the USA or any given political donor, economically.
@@a.s.2426 The US govt doesn't have the right to dictate how non-american companies sell shares
If only our politicians (and media/Forbes) got this serious on our $31.5 trillion National Debt
They are
Wait that sticker is cute
How do you get that sticker?
@@XevenYT143 After you click 'reply' click the happy face emoji and all the available emoji's will pop up. ✌
Solving that is easy. Fund the IRS so they can go after all those tax dodgers (over half a trillion dollars each year!). Who doesn't want the IRS funded? Republicans. That tells you all you need to know.
LKY once said, in 50yrs China will catch up with US, military or economy. Although, today it is the halfway mark, in reality, it will be less than 10 yrs. US is very uncomfortable knowing that they cannot be a street bully anymore because big brother is coming to town
Looks like Tiktok forgot about giving somebody coffee money.
?
What does this mean?
@@christineyramsey5433 "lobbying hard"
@@christineyramsey5433 bribe
@@christineyramsey5433 Bribe,Bribing the commision
Whenever he tries to respond they just interrupt him
Found the CCP account
Cause he never gives an answer to the question. Always goes around the question so he doesn’t incriminate himself with his words. He has to lie to support his ties with the CCP
That’s basically what happened throughout this “hearing”. For the most part it was committee members railing against TikTok with little attempt at actual fact finding.
Rudeness. That's the name brand of hearing.
they have a 5 minute time limit and a lot of things they want to say. they want to get through all their points, which can be difficult, so they limit their questions to yes or no to save on time
What’s funny is people are concerned less about national security, and more about the next big video trend. The proceedings are annoying how it’s conducted. But I have a friend in cyber security. She works for our national security. There are serious issues she said. But these proceedings are a joke how they’re being held.
It's odd how people are not more aware of Russian troll operations like the Internet Research Agency, or TikTok's business practices. Social media is a big trojan's horse. Even many TH-cam commenters may be bots and/or trolls liking each other's misdirecting comments.
Dude, this is also important so tiktok can be a stop on it.
@@JanneValkama What is happening here? The third red scare?
Out of all of those committee members, these concern and questions makes the most sense. Unfortunately vast majority of them were filled with ignorant prejudice, and diluted the focus.
Makes the most sense? Crenshaw can't seem to wrap his head around the fact that Chow isn't Chinese!
Congress embarrassed themselves with some of the dumbest questions ever asked. "Does TikTok use the wifi network?" This hearing was straight out of Idiocracy.
Lol..I agree. There is a bunch of stupid people there.
China itself has banned tiktok along with other American apps like WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, TH-cam, google , instagram , …. That’s how china got rid of competition.. any Chinese who use those apps will be arrested .. do anyone you know this ? Do you know they promote hatred towards west and America in Chinese version of tiktok douyin .. understand the real threat .. be thankful finally American comes together for common threat .. evil ..
i had no idea where they were going with that question. all online platforms use wifi networks
@@qoi he was trying to ask if they infect wifi routers
What they are asking is if TikTok uses the wifi network to infect other devices in which it does.
"Thank you Mr. Chew for bringing democrats and republicans together." What a great opening line.
😂😅😂
You were close
Sad actually.
It’s actually stupid idk why he has to make a joke that divides the left and right wing also the left wing has beliefs that are far different than communist beliefs
In fact republicans have more in common with communists
No fair China, only American companies can take our citizens data 🤣🤣🤣
Apples an oranges. Two different issues. Both important but neither negating the other.
Imagine if congressmen actually showed up to these hearings prepared and well read about the topic instead of totally clueless about everything from tech to business.
They were paid exactly to do that by Bytedance before the hearings and that is to play stupid and ask idiotic questions.
What was wrong about what he said?
crenshaw was informed tho
THIS IS A CHINESE BOT ACCOUNT JUST LOOK AT ITS HISTORY
@@mrajsma01 tinfoil much? 😂
Americans will have to use VPNs to access TikTok, just like Chinese people have to use VPNs to access TH-cam
funny lol
😆如果真是这样那太搞笑了
if it be real…lol
interesting
Well, Chinese people have to use VPNs to access Tiktok as well, they could only access Douyin in mainland, they can’t register a tiktok account with mainland cell number. So goal achieved I guess
@@JayjayYangno,我就是大陆手机号注册😂
Bingo
Rule No.1: dont answer any "yes or no" question with "yes or no" , because when you answer it, you are join their game and play by their rule, as per say " rule based order".
Here is a little pink .. wumao come to rescue tiktok .. disgusting
He gave very straight answers. I beg for straight answers and when someone like this guy gives them, he is ridiculed and abused. Our congress ought to be ashamed. Especially the stay puft marshmallow woman who calls herself a maga conservative. She sounds like a communist propagandist here
How to avoid question
Rule No.1: never answer the question directly, always refer to something else.
Rule No.2: always compare the issue to others.
Rule No 3: always say something irrelevant.
@@Lucifer-fj7mg chew followed none of these rules. He answered directly most of the time. He only tailed off maybe twice with irrelevancy.
And "compare to others", yeah, chew recommended Congress pass law to regulate all social media to protect users data. Facebook and IG get away with the very same horrendous crap that Congress is freaking out about TikTok that "might happen in the future". So Congress is going nuts over shit that hasn't happened yet while meta and Alphabet Inc are performing the VERY PRACTICES for decades that TikTok is being accused of.
You think is a “hearing”? No, this is an interrogation conducted in public.
In any interrogation where a suspect fails to answer a question with a direct response but instead beats around the bush in an attempt to throw off the interrogators with a red herring is a clear indicator for the interrogators that they have the right individual in custody. A plausible cause or intent may have yet to been established for perpetrating the crime but that tells the interrogators they are on the right track.
Your edgy Rule #1 is only witty in the eyes of laymen.
I don’t even use Tiktok but this is not a public hearing. It’s either a comedy show or a shameless execution. And the poor guy is… Singaporean 😂
Money talks
It doesn't even matter if the poor guy is singaporean or not, he could be anyone but he IS the ceo of tiktok and that is the key here, he keeps avoiding all the questions and trying deny what tiktok has done towards genocide and anti ccp content filter and influence what ppl believe that acts stronger than any other social media
So? They're still owned by the chinese state.
Singapore is so respectable though. Their history on how their country developed is admirable. And really shows in all of their people being incredibly intelligent and rational even during these trying times when people in powerful "free thinking" countries are losing their minds.
These free thinking countries self destructs themselves but blaming others for it.
So let’s interrogate the CEO of TikTok! Let’s not give him a chance to say anything like what is really going on here. It seems to me that they are steam rolling him, saying all this different stuff and not giving him a chance to reply, or say anything I hate to say it, but our government is a bunch of bullies.
He buffed, he is aware of what's going on. He is just trying to buy time. And he is a puppet that branch with CCP.
You should have seen the absolute 🐳 of a woman accusing tiktok of threatening her safety because of a meme on tiktok and after all that she didn't let him respond and said, "we're moving on"
And no, I didn't see any videos of whoever you mentioned.
@@rosanaaramayo4831 yeah he does know what he's doing... That's why he's the CEO. However, these tech illiterate dust pans have no idea what they're doing.
@@lolkhars3525 I KNOW I SEEN IT! This is absolutely our government being bullies! They can’t make money from it and they don’t like that! And that 🐮 that ran her mouth to him like needs to take a personal inventory before she speaks to someone like that
My question is… isn’t this a concern with all social media apps and other data storing companies with a Chinese entity? Why only tik tok? Does Meta not have a Chinese entity? Google? Apple? Etc?
Wouldn’t, by the same logic, the Chinese entity of those companies be required by the CCP to hand over data?
They are. How do you not understand that. China forces all companies operating in China to hand over all data and be stored to access anytime
That’s the whole point of this. China has our information. We don’t have chinas companies information
🤦♂️
This is an obvious spying tool.
Dan Crenshaw is invested in Facebook stock and Meta (pareny company) donated to his campaign, that's the difference
Facebook/Meta and most Western apps are banned in China. Can’t even be accessed on their internet.
No they don't lol cuz it's banned in China. All of them
I'm on neither side here but what a farce... Asking questions and not even letting the guy answer, then just staying your pre prepared conclusion
Im Norwegian. I am embarrassed by American government powers. Here people sit with one leg in the grave - some sound like they were born in 1776 and ask intelligent people about digital gadgets. Many of them have difficulty understanding that Wi-Fi exists. Now I understand why the infrastructure in the US is 50 years behind Europe - but at the same time it is sad that a country like the US really cannot have up-and-coming people in government. Do they sit there until they die? Stop harassing China - you have the same thing yourself - a number of apps that we in Europe use. That apps in general should not be part of a country's government through telecommunications goes without saying - but normal people and young people want Tik Tok and everything else - precisely because it represents the free part of the world.
You said a lot no things but didn’t say a thing about the concerns raised in this hearing which are legitimate issues.
'TY FOR BRINGING REPUBS & DEMS TOGETHER' I SAW MY REP LAUGH
My issue with all of this isn't the fact that they are finally cracking down on TikTok for feeding information to the CCP, it's that the US government is acting like other countries don't do it too, and that the US government itself isn't a part of that activity. If you want to ban one act of information theft in the name of maintaining user privacy and national security, it should be spread across the board.
That's because they can't control Tiktok which is why they're trying to ban it
Ah yes, whataboutism, what a great comeback.
They’re not acting like other countries don’t do it. Their issue is THE CCP. how many times do they have to yell it in your face before you get it.
@@regularbloke4395 Kind’ve like Chew saying that his kids would use Tik-tok IF they lived in America. Okay, Mr. Chew… Okay…
This is an irrelevant whataboutism.
To be fair, unlike other congressmen, Dan Crenshaw presented a somewhat intelligent argument that's worth investigating. Just wished that Tik Tok CEO was given time to respond.
It's a fundamental misunderstanding in the way companies and parent companies operate. Dairy queen and Geico have the same parent company but that doesn't mean your insurance agent knows what kind of ice cream you like.
they got tired of circle talk and diversive answers . that ceo isnt the bad guy he works for the problem here .
@@especiallyabsent I don’t think Dairy Queen and Geico have a section in their HQ dedicated to government officials though. In China, every company has to answer to the CCP. They have a state controlled economy there.
@@brianspohn5982 Mr Chew did not present any deflecting answers or circular reasoning; he was precise and straight to the point.
@@Zeus17xno China have operated marketing economy since the 1980s. Chinese government most do some regulations on market.
The worst thing is that they are old and out of touch! What he says only proves it!
I feel that they already make that decision to ban tiktok. The hearing is just formality they never let him speak and explain....
You obviously never watch hearings. Ea politician gets only 5mins. And want answers to be short not a paragraph.
Yep.
Classic 😂
WTF is Tik Tok so important to the CCP of it is not a tool of theirs? They do not care about any other product as much but supposedly the CCP is not involved? They are willing to start WW3 rather than give up on Tik Tok but it has no real importance to the CCP?
Nice
Ain’t no way Nick fury started off the video🤣🤣
I assumed this was gonna be one of those joke videos when I say the thumbnail
😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 for reals
Crenshaw rules!
Hasselhoff is still the best Nick Fury
Original Nick Fury
So basically tiktok can do what every social media company already does
preaty much so
The only different is that west social media cannot say anything or have business in China.
But CCP can do whatever they want or misleading in TikTok, try search "Tiananmen " "天安門" and you can see wumao/little pink made contents to cover the tragedy.
Other co. Have right to protest bt not for tiktok in china
other social media companys arent controled by an authoritarian dictatorship . that makes it more dangerous . other platforms have to change too but tictok first !
It's run in america.....or didn't you read the memo?
If I had an American social media account holder,I would be more worried about FBI or ClA snooping.
Really?! Over China?! Lmao!
Back in the 70's we got special need children jumping out of window because they think they can fly like superman and tried to blame DC comic 😂
It’s a little different
where was that? How many kids were really doing that or is that an urban legend? What do you mean by "special needs"....?? Kind of vagueOH and in the 50s' we had CIA agents jumping out of windows while being unknowingly dosed with LSD as part of MKULTRA Project s
That's a topic for another day when DC Comic changes ownership. 😂
@@ml-ws4ok the hysteria and ignorance around it is not, though
Back in the 70's the welfare kids were eating the paint chips off the window sills.
Damn, imagine if they could do the same thing for something so obvious that is actually killing our youth like guns....
You got a point.
Guns kill children, no one bats an eyelid.
Children use tiktok, everyone loses their shit.
American hypocrisy at its best.
You mean the people behind the guns right.Guns don't kill people it's the people behind them that do
Yeah, like in Chicago. They have very strict gun laws yet the gun murders are through the roof.
Guns don’t kill people.
Guns don’t shoot themselves.
@@missinquizitive2902 same way with an app, with this logic tiktok isnt dangerous because its the american users who post the harmful videos that the congress is complaining about. Its not like we should ban paper and pencils simply because someone can write a hate letter to someone else. I dont get why you would need a firearm or who in their right mind would have one in the same house as children the way i dont understand why parents let kids on tiktok.
This put an entire new definition to grilling somebody.
That’s how Americans run their country, and have imagined all by themselves how the world should be run. Most of the time they half know what is going on, half assumes and then just talk and talk and bulldoze their way.
They are accusing TikTok of doing the same they are doing. They sure do love to hate.
Okay skipper thank you buddy
Can't trust a person named Skipper lol
@@aaronrubalcava7810 Can't trust a tribal named Aaron
Umm no
China has laws to have access to all data when you operate in China. We don’t have Tik tok data when it operates in US
You win the dunce award for the month knowing nothing
@@aaronrubalcava7810 Aaron is a joke of a name
Congress has already made their verdict. They don’t want to even listen to his answer and make up their own answer. This hearing is pointless.
American Big Tech Companies mis-using your personal data is more of a concern than China having your data 🙁
CCP is an icelandic game company, those who made EVE online. I think you meant CCCP
"TicTok collect personal data" 😆 🤣 😂
Im so pleased the US dont do that and dont track your searches and monitor you every second of the day
The US complain about china's balloon whilst the the US have high Res satellites taking pictures of every country and no country complains 😆 🤣 😂
Can anyony see the irony here
As if China doesn't have satellites doing the same.
This has nothing to do with personal data. We all know the US has done that to it’s people and other nations. China does the same every country tries. China has banned all US social platforms for the exact reason Dan ended his statement with.
@@BH-rm1ch yes so what is all this about just to slag china off nothing to do with TicTok
Not saying it’s right but it’s certainly not worse. The CCP poses a threat to the U.S.’s national security and continues to do so. National security is the first priority, and if banning an app full of bad actors is the way to combat that sobeit.
Edward Snowden
Damn. How the hell we got from rail road to tick tok?!?!?!! Guilty by association isn’t a corporate problem.
We asking the wrong questions.
All of these politicians are terrified. And not for us. They HATE us
Lol
Yes it is, if I drive you to the store knowing you have a gun and intend to rob it, I’m guilty just as much as you are even if I just drove you there and if someone were to get killed, I’d be charged with murder just like the killer.
@@dontcarelol9138 your comment is gold!
I couldn't put it better. But I'm not thinking about ticktock.
Have a nice day!
Actually:
From having almost no Rail-Roads anymore to not owning TikTok ...
It's a political theater. Please get your facts right. Why ask a Singaporean about CCP and Chinese side of the business when TikTok team are global, not Chinese? This shows that politicians either don't understand how business structure of Bytedance or refused to understand them.
I suppose they’re saying that only the American government can do such things to Americans. SNOWDEN WARNED US! 😂
the whole world knows about US's concerns because it has been broadcasted everywhere by MSM. But when you invite a person to the hearing and demand answers, can you at least allow the person to speak?
The problem is that he's deliberately wasting their time by reiterating their alibi instead of answering the relevant questions.
@John-Paul Gignac just show a dying kingdom with last grasp of breathe
@@crosswingrobots Nope. I believe this gentleman sat in front of congress in good faith and genuinely tried to answer and clarify but was not given the proper timeframe to answer the questions. Furthermore, there weren't clear-cut answers to some of the questions and he was not given the chance to make his points through. To me, this hearing looked more like these lawmakers wanted to hear themselves talk and appeared as tough and pressing hard against tiktok/china.
I keep seeing this as a talking point about him talking; he’s not talking. He’s there to provide talking points with the hope of convincing congress to not ban them. He didn’t answer any of the relevant questions and he was being pretty evasive to simple questions. I know for a fact that he lied when he said that they don’t censor content critical of China because it’s happened to multiple people.
@@cestmoi4252 How much is China paying you to post?
So we just going to pretend like this hasn't been happening from within for years?
It's Congress. We can't expect too much from these clowns. We should be thankful they woke up before crashing the car into a tree.
We are slow in moving , that is why we are always in shit
because the real issue here is the US losing its information monopoly to China. Don't get me wrong; if the US wants to ban TkTok, it should. China already bans Google, Instagram, and FB because they know these companies are compelled to provide user data to the US government.
It's all the same really; all of these big tech companies can be used for information warfare
They're only doing this because of the Chinese ballon and the threat of China joining the war in Ukraine
Everything these frauds complained about has been happening here for decades with Facebook, Twitter, and our own "CCP" .. (FBI, DOJ, CIA ETC)
Why is there a pirate in the US congress?
Because pirates are criminals
He doesn't even want to hear the answers to the questions he asked. I respect shou chew had this much patient to deal with it
Patience to the tune of several billion dollars market cap if the platform is banned in USA.
As if the Uniparty doesn't control U.S. social media companies. Physician, heal thyself.
Right but they don't want others to control ..
Ha. If the reaction to Musk buying Twitter doesn't tell you something about US control over media... uh, ya dumb.
@@gcburns4 So you're saying Twitter is now an open free speech platform. Stop projecting your dumbness onto others.
Strawman.
@@bobmunchen4364 You don't understand what strawman even is. I'm pointing out hypocrisy, not putting words into anyone's mouth falsely representing those words as their argument just so I can knock it down.
Far be it from me to be giving advice to morons, but there's an old saying you might want to familiarize yourself with: "It's better to keep your mouth closed and have people think you're ignorant than to open it and remove all doubt."
Just here to say I opened tiktok account today after this hearing thing
same
here's my recommendation on how to train the algorithm so you can see more of what you want to see faster; search a topic with #'s. for example of I want to see horses I'd search #horses or #ranchlife.
+1
Good job Dan. We need more serious intelligent people like him to ask the right questions
Why not go after Google and apple for allowing tiktok to have the ability to set permissions that harvest so much?
You should be worried more about what your own government does with your data than TikTok.. lol..
The American government is for the people by the people and we have a second amendment and free speech to hold them accountable.
China on the other hand is a communist totalitarian regime that hates democracy and the Republic we have made up of 50 states with their own state laws and rights.
You should go live in China.
Well at least US government has check and balance and some people really do go to court. Would you say the same thing for China? Oh wait! We don’t know! No one knows because that’s what communism does. For what it’s worth. I’d rather be checked by the American Government than the Chinese Government. Because at least I know that there’s hope someone is going to snoop around.
Look up what the CCP does with their people please and then come to a more educated decision
And you show your lack of understanding and knowledge in this area. This ban has absolutely nothing to do with protecting peoples data. It’s about protecting our nation. He literally ended his statement speaking about why tik tok needs to be banned.
Tik tok ban is xenophobic
He was the only guy who actually said something important.
Wow i am genuinely surprised to see such intelligent questioning in US Senate
Based on the questions that these congressmen and women asked. You can tell that they have never used Tik Tok before. I felt bad for the CEO.
Can you imagine the trove that the Party could have hit their hands on and these details are his life, if s Democrat such as Schumer was on TikTok then nothing will be safe, How many in the military have this in their phone, this could be activated remotely or do the democrats just imprison the servicemen
@@David-fj5lz if China wants to fuck with the US they will just hack Facebook who has all the info they want. Simple.
yea the ceo is not in charge of tictok he is a tool of ccp . they never let him talk because he was doing circle talk .
You'd feel worse if the CCP Jack Ma'd this dude if he made a mistake.
they are talking about ccp, why do they have to use tiktok to talk about a totalitarian regime?
When things go political (or political right), black n white just can easily be flip floppy at those senators' will, n be manipulated as it had already set up …completely subject to donors' interests.
I don’t know about you guys, but I think Solid Snake has a point here.
Mr. Chew: I run TikTok and only TikTok and I am Singaporean, not Chinese.
The second someone else want a part of the pie, they make him the bad guy and attack him to make them selfs the heros.
Now we come to realise how shallow these congressman possess in their view of technology.
There's no surprise
i started to luagh when that old bag asked about tiktok accessing wifi and face detectors for filters. These boomers need to leave office with their caveman brains
yet china bans all western tech companies
Thanks for your insight, zhang
Bad Chinese bot is bad.
Dark times..
Chinese Tiktok is Douyin. If CCP decides to close down Douyin tomorrow, imagine how many people associated with Douyin will lose their jobs. How much revenue will Tiktok lose?
As a Chinese, I think the hearing for TikTok is a political theater for the congressmen and congresswomen and also a embarassment for US. Everybody would not to show to people how tough they are without knowing how stupid and rude they look.
If this doesn't result in TikTok being banned this was just a nothing burger. You can't tell me in good faith that when both sides of the aisle go at with this and nothing comes of it it has to do with something far more nefarious than just TikTok.
Nothing burger😂😂😂 like that saying but we gotta get the Trojan horse out of am
Stop Asian hate
just like every hearing (from facebook and other things at least evidently nothing has changed)
probably
Dementia Joe could ban it right now by declaring it a national security threat. He won't though.
This reminds me of the twitter files... US gov working with social media companies... just like TikTok is getting accused of.
You mean China. This is not Twitter this tik tok that has your personal information, the communist party,hello.
I don't think we need to use the word "accused" when referring to Twitter or Tik-Tok.
I mean...... You literally just tuned in if you think were still at accusations.
it's already illegal for tik-tok to be used on government phones, and most responsible large companies that issue phones Ban it as well.
Really, we have political member working in social media? Social media doesn't work with CCP. Social media owned by CCP.
根据中国的国安法，所有企业和个人，都有义务向政府提供情报和协助。否则就是犯罪行为。中国的企业即使不愿意，也不得不配合中国政府搜集资料。
The difference is the foreign entity or government….something a lot of comments are forgetting
Nobody asked why Singapore doesn't allow 13 year olds access to TicToc while the USA does......
say all you want, all will go according to plan.
Might as well strap in and take a front row seat.
I am so glad this man did not allow him to lie. But now what??
ban tiktok.
sanctions
Stop Asian hate whatever
India Never Do This Kind Of Drama. They Just Banned It With A Notice in 2020... That's All. Straight to the Point, No Drama
I think the USA is trying to raise awareness to just how big and influential China is in US society without US citizens realizing it. Many very popular US brands like the appliance business of General Electric motors and Smithfield Foods inc. are owned by Chinese conglomerates.
Making a huge show like this helps raise awareness just how big and invasive the CCP has become especially at a point in time of rising tensions between the China/Russia and the USA + allies.
They also shit in the streets in india, why don't you copy them on that as well.
😂beacuse their Armies got their @$$ kicked by them
Just ban TIKTOK, I like india government did
And u proud of it?
This hearing committee made me want to use TikTok
Balloon wars, and now the TikTok wars, USA looking like a joke to the world 😂😂😂😂
Was that man even allowed time to speak? Wow this is like a white version of the cultural revolution, truly remarkable reboot of McCarthyism, you guys must be so proud.
There's more important things than TikTok, Congress should focus on our well being by lowering food prices, gas prices, rent prices, and here they're fighting like kids over social media platforms OMFG 🤬🤬🤬
Exactly.. It cost a million a day for just the hearing. The fact face book, and others transfer the datas to American NSA like face recongination and fingerprint scan .. they collect info on you.. Patriot law. Plus America still begging $$ from China to fix U.S debt. Biden spent over billions for Ukraine that would fix everything in U.S. Both parties have not stop it and still voting for more defense spending and lots of hearings. dog and pony shows. Trillion of money waste.
Protecting national security is pretty important. They could care less about the social media aspect. Listen to the last 15 seconds again
This is a political conspiracy platform , what a shameful US political establishment in the eyes of the world .....
@@creator4413 LOL "national security" is the standard narrative the government defaults to in order to keep the public quiet and compliant when they cannot solve any of these other issues that were mentioned. Haven't you realised that by now?
You're right, but what you're concerned about falls into the president's policies, and certainly, he hasn't been doing his job.
What an arrogant guy spoke of nonsense at the congress. Waste the money of tax payer.
It appears the politicians already made their mind that it is not allowed to have non-US based dominating social media company operating in US while it is OK for US based social media company dominating in other countries.
The performance of tik tok's COE is outstanding !!
Wait till Crenshaw hears about the NSA
Crenshaw was a seal he worked along side nsa bro get with the times.
Edward Snowden must be watching this clown show while rolling on floor laughing 😂😂😂
Wait till you hear about the concept of "lesser of two evils" and the additional reality of natural born citizens having a legal obligation and duty to their country
@@animalbeast6564 probably why he is anti freedom and liberty.
@@sercastamere9853 NSA CIA are the most evil.
The pentagons insecurities WILL NOT become OURS
I wish they'd go after domestic political and corporate propaganda as hard as they're going after potential foreign propaganda.
The problem is these corporate goons aren’t being paid by TikTok so they wanna destroy it.
You think they should be paid by Tik Tok?
My guy living under a boulder thinking this a money issue instead of a breach in national security that not only contributes to propaganda but also data mining that can prove to be detrimental to US at the brink of war with the chinese pigs.
@@Tycondaroga100 How do you feel about TH-cam shorts?
@@francismarion4450 the guy asking questions invested in Facebook. If that doesn't raise questions idk what does
He is an American invested in an American company talking about a Chinese app’s power in America. Why are you so but*hurt about Meta and Google? Of course they will invest in it; it’s home made software.
These arguments are weak. Homemade stupidity is easier to handle than foreign intervention.
This guy is afraid China's going to mind control him or some shit.
I'm not saying we shouldn't treat TikTok as a risk, but this rep is pissing his pants over teenager girls dancing
Stop the xenophobia
"Pissing his pants over teenager girls dancing" Yeah, dancing in provocative clothing in a suggestive manner for everyone of all ages to witness and observe.
Think the guy is afraid of China spying through TikTok not mind control lmao
TikTok has billion of users or course the CCP has huge influence on USA data and what makes Americans fatter and dumber!
@@NukeTheOG HAHAHA idek why he thinks that's an effective way for China to spread propaganda
Imagine if the congress puts in this much effort to STOP A G CIDE .
Sin: That man looks like a Chinese 😅😅
Anything else?
Big Boss didn't trust TikTok .
Watching our government’s incompetence on this subject is embarrassing. Props to CEO for remaining composed and professional, can’t say the same about everyone else involved in this “hearing”
its not incompetence. They have valid points the ceo is acting dump. just like huawei. They are trying to protect your data from china.
THIS IS A CHINESE BOT ACCOUNT JUST LOOK AT ITS HISTORY
Yet another Chinese bot
Look at all those politicians’ stupid faces lol. Give the world another chance to see the best the US “democracy” can offer.
This guy looks like Russell Crowe with Snake Plissken cosplay.
Lmao this is an embarrassment they don't understand corporate structure, technologically illiterate and a lot of points lawfully illiterate. They literally set privacy policies on the web but don't understand them. SMH
Corporate governance? OK, so bytedance owns TikTok, CCP owns Bytedance, there you go.
It seems to me you are the one who doesn't know anything about how China works.
Like the CIA did with FB?
The cia and China are both enemies of the US.
What's your point?
FB was never banned.
@@lisabenam960
It should be
What does Congress actually know about TikTok that they are not revealing (clearly) to the general public?
We're really not talking about the casual racism of him saying the CCP law would include Chew and brushing him off when he said he was Singaporean not Chinese.