“Your platform should be banned,” committee chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) said at the hearing’s outset, alleging that the Chinese Communist Party can use TikTok to “spy” on Americans and access their private data. Members of the House committee - on both sides of the aisle - were not buying his claims. This is emphatically untrue.”Ĭhew told committee members, “The bottom line is this: American data stored on American soil, by an American company overseen by American personnel.” He said there is an “inaccurate belief that TikTok’s corporate structure makes it beholden to the Chinese government or that it shares information about U.S. “Let me state this unequivocally: ByteDance is not an agent of China or any other country,” Chew said in his submitted testimony. In his prepared remarks, Chew argued that there is an alternative to an outright ban for TikTok to address concerns over Chinese influence over the app. He declined to provide revenue estimates or financial data for TikTok, saying ByteDance is a privately held company. “ByteDance is not owned or controlled by the Chinese government,” Chew said Thursday at the hearing. Under pending congressional legislation, which has bipartisan support, President Biden would have the authority to ban TikTok under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. over national-security concerns given TikTok’s Chinese ownership. The Biden administration recently demanded that ByteDance divest its ownership stake in TikTok or potentially be banned in the U.S. The hearing, titled “TikTok: How Congress Can Safeguard American Data Privacy and Protect Children from Online Harms,” was held Thursday morning in Washington, D.C. ban of the app would hurt the country’s economy, reduce competition and “silence the voices of over 150 million Americans,” Chew said in testimony submitted to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
representatives, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew tried to make the case for why the popular app is not a security threat to the country - and why a government ban of the app would be the wrong course of action.Ī U.S. In front of a panel of skeptical and hostile U.S.
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