The hearing, Chew’s first appearance before Congress, kicked off with a lawmaker calling for TikTok to be banned and remained combative throughout. A number of lawmakers expressed deep skepticism about TikTok’s efforts to safeguard US user data and ease concerns about its ties to China. Nothing Chew said appeared to move the needle. The rhetoric inside and outside the hearing room highlighted the growing, bipartisan momentum for cracking down on the app in the United States.
In 2020, The Washington Post worked with a privacy researcher to look under the hood at TikTok, concluding that the app does not appear to collect any more data than your typical mainstream social network. The following year, Pellaeon Lin, a Taiwan-based researcher at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, performed another technical analysis that reached similar conclusions.
It’s all so weird. Guns at schools aren’t banned but trying to ban an entertainment and educational app is problematic?
Stoneaged questions from our congress.
Grilled him for hours? Bet he's even Chew-ier now then.
He's got an amazing name, though.
i would say US lawfakers & massmurder 🤡⛽️🔥💀 call 911 and f.UCK off 4ever 🐺 how how 313 🇵🇸
Stay strong hero ❤️
It was pure persecution, not a hearing. The old folks in Congress aren't there to LISTEN, they are there to persecute. They didn't understand the tech at all, they just wanted to burn someone at the stake.
Let me translate that for you - 'Hey Chinese guy, give me more money or we'll take your teen rape app off the market.'
Have you covered what's going on in France/Paris at all?