There seems to be a lot of pro-congress sentiment ITT right now, which is worrying to me.
TikTok is a capitalist social media company that certaily deserves a lot of scrutiny, especially considering ties to China.
But if you think Congress did a good job here...then I don't know how we live in such wildly different worlds.
Asking that CEO "does TikTok access the home wifi network?" is such an incomplete question. Everyone of us would immediately ask a clarifying question: "do you mean: does tiktok access data on other devices in the network" or "does tiktok monitor traffic within the network".
These are legitimate questions, but to ask a completely idiotic question and then not let the man clarify is just embarassing.
Same thing with "Have you changed the source code?" WTF does this even mean??
It's as if I'd asked somebody "Have you eaten?", not have you eaten today, or have you ever eaten. Have you eaten. Yes the fucking source code has been changed. It's being changed all the time???
Please...Congress already had an opinion on this before the hearing ever started and congress made sure to ask deliberately unanswerable questions to hit the man with "Yes or no????" as soon as he opened his mouth.
I'm certainly not a fan of TikTok, but if you see this as anything other than the US congress trying to get a unprecedented ban of a foreign competitor, you are being naive.
150 million US americans use TikTok. They are too big, they can't be as easily controlled and most importantly: they make money that belongs to Meta, Google and all our other friendly data monsters.
Don't be silly, this is not about national security, the CCP or anything like that. It's about money, like always.