, TikTok's chief executive, testified before Congress on Thursday and faced a barrage of questions over the distrust of the popular video-sharing app, and it's parent company ByteDance.
National security concerns over the social media giant's links to the Chinese Communist Party has garnered support for Congress to take action in recent months. A growing number of U.S. states have banned TikTok on itsUS officials have issued concerns about TikTok's privacy as far back as the Trump administration in 2020.
These thousands of businesses can readily find other means of advertising.
Useless datamining app, delete
Like if our government cares.
Breaking! Spy ring says shutting them down will hurt business!
“But it makes me money, at the possible expense of my nation’s future.” Isn’t a good reason. It means your mind is on your money and you don’t care who you sell out. Your kids, your neighbors, your community. You just want your money. There’s good money and there’s bad money.
Not from my perspective, I don’t use the China APP!
I'm seeing alot of 'influencers' whose income is solely dependent on TikTok. If that is indeed true, they can't ban it fast enough. If you're livelihood is derived from making TikTok videos, then you probably made a poor tactical decision about your career.
Awe.
Good, it won't hurt 330,000,000 citizens. Find a business that produces something or sells something of value and worth. China is showing its hand we are headed for a military confrontation with China. We better get ready because it's coming. TikTok isn't going to matter.
Find a new business.
American style of free speech and democracy is a joke.
Too bad, its bad for the country! Ban It!
LOL sure
So what the security of our country is more important…..
What is a TikTok business owner?
Businesses shouldn’t be using it!
Ahhhh, too bad National Security is way more important
Hurt other business or Tiktok profit? Crazy
Never have had tik tok, always seemed extremely stupid to me.
After Covid do you actually think they care about small businesses
Someone else will take over tik toks space... those business owners need to pivot just like all the rest of us whose living is taken away by the government (natural gas appliances or gas cars in CA for instance)
Ban Tik tok now!!!!!! SecBlinken
Pro Tip: Pick something other than a Chinese espionage tool to run your business.
Who will be hurt by a TikTok ban? It'll be TikTok's financial backers Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), SoftBank, Sequoia, General Atlantic, and Hillhouse Capital. Plus the 150m American TikTokers. So CCP would care less whether or not TikTok is banned.
Typical words spread and taught by Chinese Communist Party lobbyists. Why don't they say that capitalism, market economy and Wall Street didn't exist in the world before Tik Tok was born?
Let them all go to zero. Ban it.
Tough shit
China app? Must be banned.
Better safe than sorry.