TikTok CEO says company at 'pivotal' moment as some U.S. lawmakers seek ban

early Tuesday the app now has more than 150 million active monthly U.S. users. "That's almost half the U.S. coming to TikTok," Chew said. TikTok in 2020 said it had 100 million U.S. users.

Chew, who will testify Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said: "Some politicians have started talking about banning TikTok." "Now this could take TikTok away from all 150 million of you," he said in the video that features the U.S. Capitol in the background. He asked TikTok users to leave comments about what they wanted U.S. lawmakers to know about "what you love about TikTok."TikTok's critics fear its U.S. user data could be passed on to China's government by the app, which is owned by the Chinese tech company ByteDance. TikTok rejects the spying allegations.

TikTok also said Tuesday it had updated its community use guidelines and offered more details of its plans to secure the data of U.S. users. The company said it had started to delete this month U.S. user protected data in data centers in Virginia and Singapore after it started routing new U.S. data to the Oracle

Why not license and control US access by a USA biz?

It's spyware and malware, it promotes dangerous trends to youth, no one should own or operate anything like this in any country. There are healthy alternatives lomotifofficial

There are 333 million Americans, so we are to believe that half are active users of his platform?

Didn't the world spin before TikTok?

tiktok_us work on being able to share your app with kids, family or friends?

Should be banned

given how they fck over black creators on that app, i'm praying for their downfall. i'm going to watch like

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Lawmakers say TikTok is a national security threat, but evidence remains unclear | CNN BusinessAs TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew prepares for his first congressional grilling on Thursday, much of the focus will undoubtedly be on the short-form video app's potential national security risks. Agreeing that the spotlight will undoubtedly be on security issues, it's important not to forget the potential for TikTok to be a platform for positive growth and expression. It has already made strides in facilitating collaboration and connection for its users. What’s the matter? TikTok doesn’t allow NSA total access to their data for surveillance of all their users? Hope for the better of this our youthful age🙏
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