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- TikTok's chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, told US lawmakers on Thursday that the app's China-based parent company, ByteDance, would not be manipulated by any government.
He was testifying before Congress, trying to sway lawmakers not to ban the short video app or force its sale to new owners.
Western officials have become increasingly concerned that China's government has links to the app that it could use for espionage or to push propaganda to its hundreds of millions of global users.
The US, the European Commission, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom have already ordered officials to delete TikTok from their phones.
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The impression I got from the 'lawmakers' is that their 'questions' were more like statements directed to their voters rather than at Shou. Whenever he answered a question, his answer was dismissed. Why did he even bother going? He just gave them an opportunity to grandstand for their electorate.
It's still worse to not go than being grilled at the hearing for nothing. Imagine how the politicians would frame it had he not gone?
Power and Greed Disrespect and Evil
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Mostly true, but that's what politicians do. They're corrupt hogs that will do whatever they must to keep feeding at the trough, but unfortunately they're the only people who can make the decisions that would secure our nation. As long as we have a representative democracy/corporatized oligarchy for a government & popularity is used as the metric for deciding who will lead us, that is how things are going to be.
Its a hard job when the people questioning you ask if an internet service uses home wifi... 🙈
i was ban before this house hearing, let them work this out i say now !
they are all cooperative ! He is not China Leader of communists !
If Twitter is banned in China then Tiktok should be banned
Lol yes or no folks
Truth is, my grandma could ask more valid questions than that... 🤣😂
Funny how their anger over privacy concerns doesn't extend to American tech companies
or israeli.
Meanwhile Tiktok, the international version is banned in China. Nevermind all other companies banned in China.
Was about to comment the same thing. All sorts of private companies and government agencies have access to you mail, whereabout, contact list, call list, credit card info, etc. But, UHH! China is the bogeyman!
That's BS. They have grilled Zuckerberg on the Senate floor as well..
@@remedytee says who? Putin and Xi? 😂
There is a new movement in the States, "If you can't beat it, sanction it, and then shut it down or sell it to me for cheap!"
😂😂😂😂你是个明白人
@@user-eq3fq1xp6s no - hes just shorteyed...
China has already announced that Tiktok cannot do the selling to US without permission, therefore I do not think China would give in to US' robbing to force Tiktok for sale for cheap.
that's been the way US companies "compete"!
Beat a dumb spy app?
Well his problem is TikTok is not an American company.
Yes, it's a Chinese company that means a CCP related entity, a spying tool for Xitler and his regime.
Enough said
Precisely
Nope his problem is TikTok is owned by a Chinese company. If it was a French or Australian company…no problem 😊
@@jameshightower8875 Forgot Alstom????
The interviewers are not interested in hearing the truth but more in making accusations.
And the truth is... the CCP's guidelines and directives
@@mikkelo999 Any evidence?
@@mikkelo999 Or it's just one of your stereotypes to China
@@camillaelaina9140 As much as many evidences which the person of this post has
@@camillaelaina9140 Is China ruled by communist party? Or it's also stereotype..?
How did he "misread the room" and how this a "PR disaster"? 🤔
He did brilliantly! He responded clearly and was level headed. It feels more like the whole thing was pointless - it doesn't matter what he'd say, the lawmakers had made up their mind.
facts
He did seem very evasive, not actually addressing the question precisely. Congress lawmakers picked him up on that repeatedly and they were right. And his aggressive/defensive tone was not a good look. Made him look desperate. To be fair he also got his point across that TikTok's being accused of things that Meta and others have been accused of before.
@@cormacwalsh I agree with you. His tone of voice was overly combative. And I thought he basically evaded all the questions.
True, this made the Congress look very out of touch and ill informed about these topics. I mean that WiFi question was so embarrassing to watch. Imo this has confirmed my feelings that this is a very bias committee that doesn’t have interest in the American people’s security, rather that don’t like foreign companies having so much influence in America. As long as the committee doesn’t go after other social media apps that collect extreme amounts of data like Facebook and Insta, I can’t take their reasoning seriously. Plus the committee was not better prepared than when they spoke to Zuckerberg. It was just as poorly researched and more accusatory rather than curious. The fact that they said I dont believe you too the CEO is so ridiculous; they didn’t get the answered they wanted to they said what they believed, with no evidence.
@@bruhmaster6915 Right! That's exactly how I felt. I lost all trust in them, the little I had after the Zuckerberg embarrassment. It's very clear that they are more anti-China than concerned about security threats. They had made up their minds, and they acted totally childish when he was reasonable and didn't walk into their "traps" the way they expected him to.
I have to disagree with some here.. I think Shou Chew did read the room, but the lawmakers questioning him were relentless with their accusations. They interrupted him repeatedly, but he kept his cool.
Dr. Harvard Stanford can't even answer simple yes-no questions. I trust Lindsey Gorman.
Cool? Cool
Where? What? He is full of lies, a humiliation to Asian community and great representation of Chinese communist party’s influence. Money can buy a lot of thing including Singaporean people like him.
He went in there knowing they've already have their minds made. There's no changing their minds. He's there also for a show. So that the Chinese media can broadcast this show trial for their narrative.
I mean this guy actively and currently giving your info to the CCP FOR FREE
Zhou Zi Chew did very well here, he didn't lose temper despite a bombardment of accoúsations and nedless interuptions. They should at least have let him speak without interrupting. That said, while he did appear and might well be honest, I believe the risks are a reality, and I wouldn't let TikTok be installed on neither my kids or my own phone. If my own country should ban TikTok I have no objections I believe we, or all of EU, banned TikTok from official authorities' phones).
we should be more concerned about openAI and ChatGPT on collecting datas
They don’t need to ask any questions. Because they don’t need the answer. They just need to judge ! 😂
get rid of Tik Tok in USA , you think China is so desperate for USA business ?
They don’t need to ask any questions; they understand body language and facial expressions.
When USA government will show the same ruthlessness to their companies (google,amazon,facebook etc.) as to tiktok, then I will belive this theater and absurdity.
that's a very misinformed comment... have you listened to the reasoning? it doesn't apply to the US companies in this way
Their jobs is to ask tough questions. Not to listen to PR. If you really educate yourself, you will see they do it all the time.
@@hunterphung3638 If you really educate yourself, you should know the difference of common and normal.
@@flyingnan2520what your people want. Your people don't want to follow our laws. Your people don't want to get out. Your people don't have understanding to begin with.
@@flyingnan2520 they can ask question they like not question you want. You can refuse to answer. That's how we do business here. We play fair. Not like your government.
it is not about security of TikTok it is about them not liking china and Chinese companies
Exactly.
The main concern after security is how dumb young people become after using it.
It's just gonna get replaced by something else it too popular to not copy.
Some young people are dumb no matter they have used tiktok or not. The only difference is that you can see their dumb behaviors after they uploaded their videos to tiktok.
Kids are dumb because they are kids. We have too many old dumb people who blame everything on children that is sad.
using tiktok are lower my iq to a single number
kids are going to do dumb stuff. It's up to the adults to prevent clever, ill intentioned AUTHORITARIAN governments from hijacking our data, and more importantly, our culture.
I watched about 2 hours of the livestream. I feel bad for the guy having to explain simple technical realities to hostile boomers, who already made up their opinion beforehand while understanding literally nothing about technology. Repeatedly, he was confronted with heavy accusations, finished by "I yield", meaning the congressmen-/women finished their 5 min and giving him no right to react.
Don’t be sorry!
Chiina has banned Gooogle
Banned you~tube, banned gmail
Banned CNN, banned FB and everything
Why can’t we ban TikTok?
Can congress ban Fox News too?
They can't do that Republicans would never get into congress if that happens
and CNN, MSNBC and TYT
@@rayerickson7614 The difference is Fox news isn't registered as a news channel the others are. Go cry about it.
@@dexlab7794 The real difference is that people actually watch Fox News for their news.
@@dexlab7794 the “entertainment, not actual news” thing is true of MSNBC as well, there was a very similar case re:Rachel Maddow.
I don't like bans...they set a bad precedent.
I can understand the security concerns, but let's not forget that American tech companies like Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft and others have been violating user privacy for years. Heck, built-in telemetry in Windows is why I switched to using Linux!
American social Media is already banned in china
They have no CZcams, Facebook or Instagram
Why should the US market be open for Chinese business if china had closed it's market for US business for years ..
I think this could be a moment where context plays a role in deciding on banning something. In China there is little to no free-speech. Twitter, Facebook & Co. would never be allowed to operate there like they do in the US. Which means TikTok's parent company Bytedance must be operating under tight restrictions too. And what is Bytedance's relationship to TikTok...?
The US should close her door like N Korea to protect her people. 🤣🤣🤣
TikTok CEO is lucky he he gets a hearing before a ban….not so lucky for CZcams, Google, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn which gets automatically banned by the Chinese government
Yeah but tik tok has ruined a generation those companies hasn't
Just ban it. Bad enough it's annoying
The issue is the blowback onto the US. If TikTok is banned from the US, then Tesla and/or Apple might be banned from China in retaliation. Tesla could fail from a ban since all of their profits come from China. Apple would also suffer greatly.
By ur logic, u r disturbing for me, then I can kill you？How ridiculous 😅
@@jeckjeck3119 because that's what communist do...
@@jeckjeck3119 han trashhh ban CCP
White House wanna get as much as media ops before banning it.
Just disgraceful bullying by the Congress
I must say, the CEO did as best as he could. That room was hostile af towards him. His answers were all vague - but hey, he's a CEO. THats his job aha
Yes vague because he has the CCP looking over his shoulder. Note the illegal CCP police stations in the west providing suspicious support for Chinese tourists an expats.
He and his Singaporean passport did a great job.
@@SWbomdiaracism like that is crazy
he handled it well tbh. Compare that to the representative of Facebook being grilled by Singapore Government about Cambridge Analytical.
if you didn't realise, DW is hostile towards him too
While they at it should ban Twitter too🤷🏻♂️
nope, Shou Zi faced a hostile (bipartisan) congress who loaded questions with half truths and then insisted on a Yes/No answer to an open ended accusation...the lawmakers were deplorable in their manners and DW is not covering themselves in glory with their interpretation of the forum...btw, Shou Zi Chew is Singaporean, the abject ethnicism of this congress was showing.
He is a liar
Yes let's just remove US from TikTok 🎉
I love how every adult is rooting for this to happen lol 😂
And every adult rooting for this to happen is choosing government censorship over freedom
The CCP internet trolls are out in force today. I hope it gets ban along with all CCP Chinese apps. They are all spyware. Made to be that way. In the CCP police state.
Speak for yourself.
not at all, on tiktok all the adults are not on US government side. In fact the american politicians made foolish questions. Everyone is cheering for chew.
@@alphaomega9387 speak for yourself.
Shouldn't congress be briefed by the FBI or the CIA on these kinds of Chinese businesses?
Chyna cry
Westerners are so dumbt, especially Americans. Their leaders want to ban Tik Tok because they believe, without any evidence, China is using it to spy on them. Yet the FBI and DOJ routinely tells Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to hand over user information without even threatening them. Bunch of SHEEPLE. 🙄🙄
They are.
The only people more trust worthy than Chinese businesses is the CIA... you know the thugs who murdered kids during night raids in Afghanistan and labeled them "terrorists in training". 😂
These kinds of briefings happen behind closed doors and are not available to the public. They only let us know what we need to know.
It’s hilarious going on TikTok and seeing the teens going crazy over a TikTok ban
Why are you watching teens on TikTok?
@S M
Maybe the app's algorithm is purposely pushing videos of outraged users. 🤔
They are probably all Chinese kids. Me and my friends never downloaded it.
@@AngloSaxons No, they're definitely American users. Users of TikTok in China get completely different content on their app; it is all about patriotism (for China), antipathy toward the West & toward the US in particular, extolling focus & discipline, etc. It is American users that get the viral videos, fluff, etc. ByteDance knows exactly what it's doing.
Why not? Junkies panic whenever they hear they might lose their drugs.
9:20 they didn't for one second talk about banning Facebook after that information came to light
you forgot FB is own by white amarikans?
How can you win when they are so afraid of losing to a company by the whole country! 😂
Tic tok banned in bat soup chyna 🍜🦇, why is facebook and instagram banned in Chyna??
Ban the app already. I am huge in meta stock right
Never mind everything, just looked at this meeting,! Such a retarts questioning , so low !
@@dennisestradda9746Boy why don’t you learn how to spell before you cry about china in YT comment sections💀
He did an excellent job while dealing with complete and utter incompetence. Tiktok is not a Chinese company, it is based in Malaysia and the USA. Let's see them grill facebook and Twitter CEOs the way they treated him and see if they handle it with as much grace and honesty.
get rid of Tik Tok in USA , you think China is so desperate for USA business ?
Hmm TikTok isn't based in Malaysia though? What are you on?
It's not an American company. It is from a foreign adversary. It's our right if it doesn't meet our laws and requirements good bye ........if you don't like it, you are free to go live in communist china. Now drink 🍺 beer and eat 🍕 pizza!
That Chinaman got the wrath of the American woman! Slammmmm....😂😂😂
@@whatsgoingon92 Singapore was part of Malaysia from 1963 to 1965. Living in the past, maybe?
>Chinese bans all American apps in china
time to return the favor.
Africa > ban all American apps, movies and gold. Returning a favour to the West
@@suezcontours6653 haha true. Return white slaves to work in construction in Africa
American apps aren’t banned in China. In fact, Google themselves were going to return to China, but the US Congress warned them not to. China was fine with it. The requirements on US firms are similar to the requirements that TikTok is trying to do now: data has to be stored and managed by people in the country, but ownership and code transfers are fine.
@@my2iu you commies are liar.
@@my2iu Idk if its banned but I know its heavily censored
Im honestly more concern with all the information the US has on people from all over the globe with Amazon, Google, Facebook, Instagram, CZcams, etc.
But that information is fragmented across different companies, and countries, making it easier protect privacy. With Chinese companies, their government can literally get all your digital history without any real barriers (and they do all they reasonably can to remove privacy in chinese social media). Goodbye privacy and hello social credit system.
“Freedom”
@@carolinas8886 Then move to China and taste the sweet freedom of the CCP.
All countries spy and collect information. The key difference is if there are checks on the power to spy and collect information. Democracies are far from perfect, but there are checks on power in democracies. The authoritarian CCP has no checks on its power. Dictator Xi oppresses his people and abuses his power without repercussions, and he will happily spy with TikTok to further advance his unchecked power.
@@jeckjeck3119 funny thing lmaof
I would strongly suggest anyone watching this video to watch the actual hearing. Terribly disappointed with DW. The level of incompetence with the questioning was shocking.
The paper holding guy.😂😂He never reads from it.
If you can’t beat them, you cancel them. That’s what happening
I think I'm going to die in front of those old people with such a serious question! Hahahaha
The US has gone crazy to force sale of a company.
Its turning the brains of youth into mush. They just become "short brains". They just see 15 second clips of people/topics and form opinions on things. Its just a terrible app for anyone to have.
@@nuck- their brains were turning to much long before TikTok came along. Ban all social media platforms if you really want to stop it. Facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube, snapchat, etc. Ban all of them
@@nuck- ok then you should ban Reel too. Dont act like you are not biased lol YOU ARE!
@@simkort5799
Yes i agree they should too. Try again.
@@nuck- it was effortless believe it or not lol
America worried about human rights 😂
They banned CZcams in China sounds fair to me
Misconception, CZcams didn't agree to follow Chinese compliance and left. Not really banned.
@@cinpeace353 By the same logic TikTok doesn't follow US compliance. What a dumb take.
@@cinpeace353 hahaha phckk chyna organ harvesting nation
It's not just CZcams, almost all foreign social media and apps are banned in China, even wikipedia is blocked there.
Good China banned it , where Anglo-Saxon is , there is blood shed , murder and lie .
TikTok Cringe will end.
Thank God.
Amen
Now we only have youtube, twitter, reddit, and facebook cringe. As God intended.
@@WompaStompaCyn cringe? I prefer over chyat
What about instagram reels .
On the contrary he becomes a star and TikTokers seem more solidified
They gave him detailed questions yet didn’t allow him to speak & would just cut him off when he would try to answer them. They only wanted yes or no responses but gave him questions for him to awnser
And he wasn’t able to answer
@@P.oliver380 How could he? He doesn't know the meaning of "yes" and "no".
No Safety and Security
TikTok Must be Ban.
Google and Facebook too
@@zeissiez only tiktok is controlled by barbaric CCP.
@@jeckjeck3119 We don't want your barbaric commies to control our social media.
Westerners are so dumbt, especially Americans. Their leaders want to ban Tik Tok because they believe, without any evidence, China is using it to spy on them. Yet the FBI and DOJ routinely tells Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to hand over user information without even threatening them. Bunch of SHEEPLE. 🙄🙄
you must admire CCP censorship
American politicians showed the world why America hates politicians 😂🇺🇸😅
Watching that was embarrassing for congress as an American
Go for the rope. As a French I find it admirable. Though I prefer the Indian government way. It banned 250 chinese apps including tiktok without any parliamentary questioning. The Chinese banned all American and European apps in total silence. No hypocrite to come and whine about being embarrassed
Douyin has opened up a huge gap in public opinion in the United States. Some time ago, a large number of vinyl chloride leaks in Ohio, the United States, and the secret discharge of nuclear wastewater by the US government.😅😅😅
Without TikTok, how will we know which brands of whipped cream are safe to spray up our butts?
Honestly, Twitter is at fault here too. Had they not killed Vine, we probably wouldn't ever have had to worry about TikTok X P
i wouldn't say at fault since there were unrelated arguments deciding it, but it could have changed things indeed
Lies again? Trade Secrets Free Information
Ban tik tok ban twitter ban facebook ban trump😁
😂😂session with people who fear balloon, shivering under the desk watching 🎈 passing by? 😂
Human degeneration will cease
Ban it please!
USA are showing how fearful they are. It's just a social media platform. Facebook is more dangerous.
Just don't download it please!
OK, I’m in my 50’s and have never seen or used TikTok. But judging from all the grandstanding from all the politicians, most of whom seem to be too old and tech-ignorant to be representative of their modern constituents, I will DEFINITELY install TikTok on my phone and start using it! 😂
What?
You're in your 50's? Because your approach sounds ridiculously childish. Why don't you do some research on Chinese laws so you know where people stand on this issue.
BAN IT NOW!!!
i was ban before this house hearing, let them work this out i say now !
they are all cooperative ! He is not China Leader of communists !
Yes CZcams, facebook, Instagram, twitter
Ban all news.
Support local lmao
@@rebeccadubois8270 ban social Media, yeah ! News, WP levels, good papers, NOPE !!!
The fact that TikTok itself is banned in China itself, says plenty.
U know nothing
TikTok is not banned in China. It's just a censored version to comply with local law.
Tik tok is banned, dou yin is in their app store instead. They are basically two different apps with different content. Hence tik tok ban in China is a true statement. You can't use the overseas version of tik tok app in China
It’s under a different brand in China.
tiktok is owned by bydance by dance is owned by CCP. So CCP control tiktok.
Can just the parents just convince their kids not to use it? The same with the drug problem, millions consume drugs, you probably know someone that uses a hard illegal drug and they blame the Cartels instead of the parents or us as a society..
China already repeatedly said that all data owned by Chinese companies must be shared with the Chinese government. Whether it’s been shared in the past is irrelevant. It’s that the CCP had granted itself the legal rights that all data must be shared with the state. When you are an authoritarian government, you can change the law anytime. Publicity traded On line education companies were forced to go nonprofit in a stroke of a pen. Profits from publicly traded Chinese techs had to be donated annually to the Communist government.
US media is amazing. Having watched a lot of this, I would say that it showed that the people quizzing him were clueless. Asking ridiculous questions that they scarcely understood themselves. He didn't read the room because the room was full of people not on his level.
Americans dominate the world's social media platforms, which led them to underestimate tik tok at the beginning, thinking that it would be easily defeated in the market competition like European social software, and the acquisition eventually made it disappear in the market.
oh god yes please ban it
Yeah ban youTube, facebook, Twitter, Instagram
Yes ban everything like North korea
Yeah and twitter, facebook, and also instagram ban them too
@@ck-bs2ms how about you shut teh f up and keep cryying about tiktok ban
@@ck-bs2ms I'm good with banning Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Maybe some sanity will return to everyone rather than people trying to make a buck off of being ignorant and vain
its sad so see what the 'lawmakers' of America have for questions. Couldn't they have done there homework first? This showed more how dum they are instead of finding a good solution to the problem.
Nice interview, thank you DW
If you can’t beat them, ban them.
So that's the reason CZcams, Facebook, Whatsapp, Signal, Twitter, and 10000s of other apps are all banned in China! "If you can’t beat them, ban them"
Like CZcams Facebook and Instagram
That's what China did to All American and European apps in China
@@francoislechanceux5818 so is the US any better by doing the same? What does this all prove really?
@@jace1113 As a French I will say yes. Being a democracy doesn't mean being naive. Or you will crushed and your democracy will disappear along with you.
CEO is also just the company employee. The problem is the one who own the company.
Businesses in china are subjected to 'absolute' control by the government. And that includes TikTok - they don't keep the data in the states - its sent out via a 'backdoor' to the government so they can monitor people in the states.
he has to report to a guy who stepped down, he is not china political people party guy!
keep the dialog open !!!!
@@lucasRem-ku6eb no you're wrong. EVERY tech company is under absolute control by government. China is centuries behind the 'modern' era in terms of civil rights. Democracy is not universal you take it for granted. In China government can FORCE women to have abortions and its perfectly legal there (illegal by UN standards). Its a way to gain access to the west.
Was this question answered?
CCP
Other countries should starting question about American freedom.
The Congress: are you a CCP member?
Mr Chew: I am from Singapore 😂
The irony is most them grilling him own Facebook shares
Damn
Zucc brainwashing US teens is not the same as the CCP brainwashing them, simple as that.
TikTok is no great loss. National security trumps this frivolous app.
Cambridge Analytica ring a bell?
Absolutely it’s like risking the security of your home for candy outside
They can buy that data from FB and Twitter like everyone else.
Plus something new can be created that's similar
Politically motivated
why did you invite an US congress apologist pretending to be a tech expert?
This was one of the questions asked by the US congressman from North Carolina.
"Does TikTok have access to our home WIFI network"
They don't even know how an APP works in general, is this her definition of "well prepared"?
Asked like a person without knowledge of new tech.
I would not object to all these platforms (perhaps with the exception of LinkedIn and CZcams) to disappear - it's dumbing down people all over the world.
facts... these tik tokers are so r3tarded it hurts to watch it!
YT is invaluable. Watching this news broadcast on it. If they get rid of it, I'll remake it.
@@norwegianzound
YT has censorship
If it's dumbing you then don't use it. Nobody forces you anyway.
Joke of the year: America has freedom of speech
100 years ago, there was the chinese exclusionary act. 100 years later, something is happening in front of my face.
they simply DONT KNOW how to LIVE their lives ! :(
In China its all about DOMINATION
Congress has problems with CCP. Not Chinese. CCP exclusionary act, yes, for sure, and we are all for it.
Congressional hearings are the best reality show.
They are the original “reality show”.
In many ways the hearing seems like yet another opportunity for lawmakers to engage in political grandstanding to their bases by making accusations and never giving any opportunity for Shou to respond. What's the point in having him there if you're the only one talking?
The opportunity was given and this liar couldn’t answer
Just ban all Chinese Apps! Every Chinese company has CCCP connection and control, PERIOD! Every Chinese knows that. Some American law makers are too naive.
Of please, so many the congressmen questions were dumb af.
Funny how a lawmaker can say "freedom" and "ban an app" in the same day.
Double standards.
Everything good for Facebook or YT or other US media ...it makes US irritated when any other apps or media does business
rather than dealing with the mental health problems which is there despite TikTok or not, just banned TikTok and then said they already done something about it
they want to ban tiktok because it belongs to china.
People should be given the liberty to decide what app they use on their phone. I hate to break it to all of you but the whole point of an app is to track you.
Why not just ban all apps from gathering user data because they all do it and it would save a lot of time and headache.
The sad thing I see now is people don't get how answering simple yes and no questions with yes or no can actually put you in dangerous situations. He has to be defensive and explain points clearly because of that, though he wasn't allowed to. If someone attempts to kill you, and in self defence you stab him and he dies with no witnesses, and when you're questioned "yes or no did you kill the man?" simply answering yes or no will most definitely get you arrested and charged and sentenced for murder. You have to explain the situation and then people will have to investigate if claims are true and then THEY can decide if you are guilty based on EVIDENCE(which was also not presented at this hearing even though they repeatedly mentioned they have some). You don't just ask did you murder the guy? You have the knife so yes. Yes you did.
Lindsey Gorman is more qualified to be CEO than this guy.
@@user-84-rg9-8n2 you've got to be kidding. I sense simp energy from you
They must have been getting a lot of good data to be panicking this much at the ban
USA is falling apart. And they're showing their fear
@@Seanw-ij7yx No doubt part of it. But they also don't want the CCP's hybrid warfare tool running rampant through their youth.
Its not the data, its the fact that tik tok is the most successful drug ever created. Even the Chinese themselves limits how much time minors are allowed to spend on it, and the algorithm is aimed more towards stem and learning. In the future in a conflict against china, tik tok could be weaponized to manipulate Americans into taking the side of authoritarianism and oppression.
@@Seanw-ij7yx They will still make money in China they will be fine
what a joke sean, who would be that reasonable? 😂 duck the ccp am i r? /s
I just feel like the representatives of states sometimes not even understood what they are talking about
How could the interviewee call this committee “extraordinarily well-prepared” when some members called Tik Tok “Tic Tac” (the candy)?? 😂
He’s a CCP capo
Love all the grandstanding by these politicians
lawmakers stating 'concerns' as 'facts'. how great.
You call this ‘ human rights ‘ ? So many people bullying a poor guy…
in the west we call it youtube short , and yeah we get it for free , and full of scam ads.
The ADHD video app...
What is she talking about? Anyone that watched knows Congress had absolutely NO CLUE what they were saying. They were using buzzwords and didn’t know the meaning of them
Yes, but they are supported by aides that are being made aware of important questions to brief the politician on. It's not a perfect system but the education system in the U.S. has been stagnating for over 70 years now.
The hearing is pointless. Just ban the damn app!
These social networks need hard scrutiny. Really unhealthy.
Why so they can control us and control our votes and what information we get
The proposal is selling to a US entity or get banned. No idea how either would make it, or one of the competing short-video apps baring fangs to replace it, healthy...
TikTok is poison.
You can select what kind of contents you want. There educational stuff too.
Ya just like drugs are but we can exercise free will to consume or not. Don't just blame the druglords. Al Chapo in the jail will not stop the Americans from wanting a few more snorts. Anyways TikTok will be banned like Chapo has gone to jail.
Wait until you use you-tube short.
cuz it's user base is?
How
Yes pls!
I Do NOT understand why a country cannot simply BAN a company because they WANT TO!!! Just ban it in the country and this issue ENDS
Just the thought of it being banned brings a smile to my face
TikTok, isn't it a sort of CZcams-like platform, but for kids?
Anyway for me it's not a question of _if_ the company gives the data to the Chinese government, but that the CHI government has free access to that data if they want it. And in that case TikTok _should_ be banned.
@@larsrons7937 it’s not just for kids SOO many adults use it to spread love, knowledge, and communication across the globe. They’re afraid of all the knowledge TikTok brings and what it can do to furthermore bring us together to fight against this matrix world
@@vibes6964 I understand that TikTok _does_ bring a lot of knowledge, about us users, into the Chinese government/ authorities. I do understand the value of such a platform for sharing information. Maybe we should all use some platform that is _not_ required to share our data outside the company (that means, a platform that's not Chinese)?
I'd rather be safe than sorry.
@@vibes6964 No its for kids.
The CEO of Tiktok. If his company doesn't aid the Chinese government in espionage and other intelligence activities then he goes to jail. That's Chinese law. A talented liar.
true.
He’s from Singapore, not China, so no he would not go to jail. Perhaps his bosses, who are Chinese, would, but thats yet to be seen.
@@ojogbaneamedu2501 His Singaporean birth is practically incidental. You could almost say - Convenient. Born to Chinese nationals working in Singapore. He was schooled in a Chinese school in Singapore after which he studied at Harvard Business School (his father was a construction worker and his mother a bookkeeper... got a generous scholarship from said Chinese school).
Career:
-Short stint at Goldman Sachs after Harvard
-DTS. A fairly infamous Kremlin linked company in its own right - Which was an early investor in ByteDance bankrolled by Gazprom of all things, during his time there. Investment efforts he led.
-CFO of Xiaomi (of PLA fame). This is not something anybody can just get into.
-CFO ByteDance (creator and owner of TikTok)
-CEO Tiktok (replaced the previous guys after said was there for only 3 months)
If he doesn't have close links with the Chinese government. Nobody does. His position at Xiaomi speaks for itself in this matter. And he is ByteDance first, and TikTok second. He was instrumental in getting ByteDance off the ground. ByteDance created TikTok. Owns it. He's the ByteDance man running it for them. The Chinese government's 1% share in ByteDance is classified as a so called "golden share". Able to outvote any other. His "boss" is effectively the CCP.
Incidentally he not so long ago admitted during an EU investigation that employees TikTok (unspecified which) were accessing the information of European journalists...
Also ByteDance, like most prominent Chinese companies, literally has an internal CCP committee to oversee the government's interests at the company. The Vice President of ByteDance is the head of this committee.
And if he ever crosses the government, for example by preventing the CCP access to data on the TikTok platform, then if he stays out of a Chinese jail, then it will only be because he sought asylum outside of China.
Ignorant White Man as usual, see someone with a chinese name and automatically assume he is china chinese. He is a Singaporean. If you bother to watch his testimony to Congress, his opening speech in the first 5 mins already stated he is Singaporean. He is even an officer in the Singapore Conscript Army, before he went to pursue his undergrads in UK and when he went to Harvard for his MBA, he met his wife who is a taiwanese. Next you are going to say Singapore in Part of China?
He lives in Singapore and is a Singaporean. Tik Tok servers are located in Singapore. Most Americans I have met have no idea where Singapore is located. Many of them kept insisting it is in China! Being ignorant is part of American culture!
it will be ban
'not had any discussions with Chinese government officials since being CEO'. This man is full of it. He's more afraid of his own government than some US lawmakers-understandably so. So he lies. It's Chinese business 101.
Well prepared commity -> 95% of the questions sounded like someone else wrote them, the way they where delivered did not make any sense. PR disaster -> yes for the congress as all of the questions that Shou managed to answer, he had a valid answer that was much better than meta or tweeter have in the past. Overall a BIG disappointment from both the government and DW News, makes me question the authenticity of the Ukrainian news I had been following you guys for.
Why Google search, CZcams, Facebook,… work freely in Vietnam 🇻🇳 but all banned in China? But US cannot banned a Chinese app?
Coz vietnamese and USA are friends. Also Vietnam is poor AF, it needs the support of the west
Because Vietnam does not have the ability to develop local software to compete, it can only use American software.
The communist government in Vietnam is more like the Chinese government in the 90th in the sense that it does not try to involve themselves in the everyday live of the ordinary citizen.
@@user-wq4fb7zt8y they have Lotus and Zing, both similar to Weibo, but no one use
It's not about local software. It's about controlling information. China is paranoid that those US apps will be weaponized against them. So they would rather do it themselves.
Greedy, selfish, nasty government 🤮