TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: I don't condone effort by former employees to access U.S. user data

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[Velocity-ezkr]

Look at his reaction to the question about the wifi. He’s like “What did this guy just ask?”

[momokui]

1980. Toshiba
2013. Alston
2020. Huawei
2023. TikTok
Any company growing stronger and better than US would be labeled as a "threat to national security" and would be destroyed.

[tmkocsucks]

The stupidity of the Congress shows a lot about them based on this conference with the CEO. They were so unprofessional and the CEO seemed disturbed by the questions that were asked.

[takarausaint]

Oh what a smart question. Does tiktok uses wifi? No, it uses diesel to run tiktok😂 i just topped up 2ltrs diesel for today😂 very expensive 😂

[Kleinlew]

Congressman: if I had TikTok installed in my iPhone and left it at home, would it sleep with my wife?

[whatyousaid]

This hearing is so embarrassed, silly, and fun to watch. Lol

[srikanthmandela]

See when a company is starting up initially, they start off in one place. Tiktok started in China, so obviously their entire servers and setup was in China. Now they are making an effort to shift the entire system of US user data to the USA. That needs to be appreciated. Its a big move. As far as the user data collection is concerned. Google, Facebook and many other companies do the same as Tiktok. If you are gonna ban, then ban all of them. Don't just target Chinese companies. That's really biased.

[minglee]

'We could all be using Microsoft Windows'.

[caitcasali]

Omg does congress understand how wifi works? Also they get up on their soapbox and preach about privacy but ask this guy to reveal all of his personal info! 🙄🤨

[PGHPulse]

Lmfao an elected official doesn't understand how WiFi works. This hearing was crazy.

[tedcleveland]

They questioning him like he is CCP when he literally Singaporean 💀

[steen]

I swear America is my favorite TV comedy show.

[unvaulted]

It’s like asking “if I put gas in my car does it have access to the car”

[Lalunez]

Mr. Chew Is my home wifi part of the Internet? Do you have information how to connect to wifi?

🤦🏿‍♂️

[christorytime]

This is funny to watch. He’s not rude. Unlike the others who were mean towards Chew and painful to watch.

[steven]

at least this congress man is respectful and technically asked the correct questions. Anyone can ask any questions, even its sounds stupid. But in a respectful ways.

[MrSmittyj]

Can we pass a law that if a congressman has absolutely no clue what they are talking about they don’t waste time. Imagine an educated person asking questions you would get to the point right away and find out if there is anything going on with TikTok.

[caitcasali]

Why does congress still create presentations that look like the ones I made in grammar school? The optics are terrible! I feel bad for the poor guy holding up the cheap Kinko posterboard. They can't even get a stand? It's 2023. It would have been hysterical if they used TikTok to make their presentations 🤣

My apple account has been hacked 3 times in the last five years and I didn't even get an apology. Idk I could care less about Tiktok but it's hard to watch people old as dirt that don't know a thing about any apps sit up there with their cue cards preaching about privacy practices 😵‍💫🙄

[lxylisw]

How could they be unprofessional ? Look at their faces ; they look so educated, well-dressed, manly, holly-wood qualified and serious. Their questions sounded so wise and inteligent too ?

[humphreyw.]

if tiktok was started in america it be a whole different story