Things got spicy at the TikTok hearings | The Vergecast
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The Vergecast’s Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce are joined by policy reporter, Makena Kelly, who is live on the ground for the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s hearing on TikTok. #Technology #TikTok #Policy
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Do you think Congress will succeed in banning TikTok in the US?
These are the people running our country?
If you want to know how intellectual our lawmakers are, watch them in tech hearings
Even though I don’t personally support TikTok, I was disappointed to see the Senate hearing where it seemed like the decision to ban the app was already made. It’s important to have fair and unbiased evaluations of these kinds of situations, and rushing to judgment without considering all perspectives is not how our system should work.
Senate people don’t know about these technologies
Why not ban every social media?
Thanks Tim Apple.
Regardless, it is foolish for government employees to use an app from an enemy country
If any responsible adult thinks TikTok is a national security risk.
They should visit a doctor
Because they have clearly brain damage.
😂 it’s a Mobile app about sharing short videos.
It’s the most first world problem ever to exist. ( what happened to good parenting )
Congress is just mad there is a big pot of money and the USA is outside of the pot.
Tiktok needs to be banned. That is all.
But yet showed not 1 shred of evidence of to any spying?
All the data that they collect. Is the same dats that all websites and apps collect.
You cannot blame a company for what the government does.
Recommended videos are based on what videos that person have watched in the past.
It should be banned in America. 🇺🇸
The smartphone generation is the first in 100 years that have severely lowered IQ levels.
Scientific research has proven TikTok is lowering the attention span & intelligence levels of its users by providing short clips.
Virtually rewiring the brain of its users.
Spicy as in embarrassing?
Those dudes are useless boomers stuck in the 50s
I have a friend who spends an hour on TikTok , while sitting on the Toilet just scrolling around !!
and if i see his app usage in settings then he spends more than 4 hours a day !
They blaming TikTok for not filtering content, people have the right of speech but youtube manages this a little bit better for example it hanles reports better and takes down videos who dont have base on the truth or proof of that ! tiktok should also review videos or put a small notice that this content has no base or its not to be practiced !
They Belive this app is ruining people and making them more antisocial who rather stay on the phone than interact with the real world !
This app is addictive and people are making its content funny and even the goverment cannot control it !
And it geathers data but not personal data but Ad data, and interest Data, so china would know what people like since china is the wolds first producer for almost everything ( electronics, batteries, cheap stuff etc), and via tiktok they collect this data and know what US people want and it could even be used in the future for politics and selling !
It’s not about China getting your personal data or your grandma’s data.. Its the collective mind set of general pollution they are after. All your likes and dislikes doesn’t matter to them. But when those likes and dislikes are collected and analyzed on a larger scale it becomes a problem because they can influence that
I love watching the verge cry about this
4:25 That is SUPER naive tho. If you really think China is not actively looking how to benefit from US data, then I have a cryptocurrency to sell you.
Not blaming her. Cyber warfare is difficult to understand because everything seems abstract and theoretical… until it isn’t.
GOV 1960s: RUSSIA RUSSIA! 1970s: JAPAN JAPAN! 2020s: CHINA CHINA!
ME: USA! USA! USA!
I don’t use TikTok but all I can say is that the Congress is overacting banning TikTok
Tiktok should be banned. If china dont allow kids in China to watch it they know how bad it is. Its addictive and drains your brain. Destroys your brain overtime.
“it’s all ready installed on your phone” lmfao 😂😆 right!!!!
on one hand… u have this giant, national mega corporations harvesting everything we think for cheap profit while getting slaps on the writs for basically bending culture and manipulating discourse to suit the advertisers…
and then, on the other, a totalitarian regime that doesn’t even allow foreign regulation to inspect or ask for receipts while violating all human rights and preparing for war.
quite the pickle