TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is set to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday, his first appearance before a Congressional committee.
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With concerns about the ill effects of social media at all-time highs and tensions growing with China, Chew’s congressional testimony will likely be met with a bipartisan buzzsaw.
“Some politicians have started talking about banning TikTok. Now, this could take TikTok away from all 150 million of you,” Chew said in a video Tuesday.
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Can’t wait to see a bunch of angry teenagers😂
As I teenager, I hope to see it go. Tiktok is very damaging and dangerous.
@Harpur_Potter 😀 seriously. I’ve never had it and I’m glad.
@Jaffer M me to
Even if it goes there’s no way in hell I’m using YouTube shorts
What about YouTube? There’s a lot of misleading videos on here , clickbait videos , video’s that have the same concerns as TikTok
Nobody is dying because of it. 😊
@Hanzo Shiru Kids and even adults have definitely died or been injured due to challenges that have been on YouTube. TikTok was not the first platform nor will it be the last to have foolish adults or innocent children harm themselves. TikTok should go though💯
It’s so funny how they are worried about their children and looks like TikTok is the only problem. But do that threatened kids have parents? Finally we found who to blame.
Unintelligible
Almost all the questions poured on Chow could be reused to all big tech CEOs. Sounds like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc are all as clean as Snow White. If you want to shut them down, find a better excuse.
People aren’t dying from stupid challenges on those platforms. Find a better argument.
@Hanzo Shiru these challenges have been on the internet since the beginning of individualized social media. The blackout challenge, as unfortunate and terrible as it is, isn’t new to the world and internet. I’m sure some of the challenge videos were shared on early YouTube and Facebook, and are likely still shared on some other platforms that aren’t being questioned today. It doesn’t stop tiktok from being held accountable, but we should make all of the social media platforms accountable for their reach.
Edit: and don’t forget all the “stupid” challenges we had on Instagram and YouTube less than 10 years ago before tiktok was a thing, the cinnamon challenge, the condom challenge, the fire challenge, just to name a few that were highly visible and shared before tiktok
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but YOU voted for Biden ?
F- for the Legal team, especially General Counsel. They made their CEO look like a joke with keep bringing the Project Texas, Singaporean background 🤣🤣
Great
Why is that when I clicked on the “Live Feed” it started at the Asian CA representative in pink (I don’t remember her name) then continued on with the majority of the room being empty as the next speakers went on till the end of the hearing, but then when I go rewind to the beginning of the non-live feed, It became obvious that I had heard most-if not all of these questions already until the Florida Representative (Ms Castor) begins speaking around 83mins into it, which coincidentally begins to explain the legislature that they’re suggesting we implement into law.
I have never seen more misinfo/disinfo, misleading and scam advertising, DMs from fake users trying to phish private information, and blatant privacy breaches in the form of video, microphone and keystroke surveillance than I have from Facebook and Instagram.
If a parent can’t keep their child off tick-tock, how in the hell do they expect Tik Tok to keep that child off the app? The representative from Colorado is exceptionally embarrassing.
Stop letting social media raise your children, or change the laws for all social media platforms. This is a social media and parenting problem, not a Tiktok problem.
Just look at the people behind Chew. They’d fit right in with any mob.
Lol the tiktok blackout challenge topic is ridiculous.
My friends used to do this in the 90s. Dumb i know but you dont need tiktok to be stupid
This has to do with the CCP having direct access to americans’ private information without even having to ask tiktok for it.
Hope Mr “I’ll Get Back To You” was wearing his diaper…. I almost feel bad for the slimer.
it’s the problem of people who use TikTok, just like it’s the problem of people using guns…
not Tiktok neither gun’s problem
you wouldn’t need a gun producer CEO to testify before Congress, RIGHT?
How is it Tiktok’s fault that these children are doing dumb things. It should be the parents fault if anything for not watching your children! Also the representative of Georgia is a joke, the tiktok guy is practically explaining nuclear chemistry to fossils. It’s embarrassing we have a bunch of two year olds in congress.
How do none of the congressman know how the internet works
I like how they are distracting the people with this hearing instead of focusing on how trumps indictment will have consequences with other Republicans