the hearing today. as a parent of three little kids, i don t want my kids on tick tock. i m scared to death of what they will find there. and that app is by design to get into our kid s head, by kids heads, by design, to push this content to them. that s what they re doing here. that s why the chinese government won t allow it. but they , of course, want americans to use it because they want to disrupt society and they want a backdoor into everything that we re doing, everything that we re seeing, everywhere that we re going. that s what tiktok is . senator , there is a question raised about how the data in the messaging can be manipulated. watch. you. you disagree with fbi director rey and nsa director and sony when they said that the ccp could have the capability to manipulate data and send it to the united states. do you disagree? with their statement? the statement says, could so do you disagree with that? no, i don t disagree with that. what of that? that was a pretty good
that s the truth, the ccp has access right now to any data they want that belongs to us. that s why i say this is a back door for the beijing government into our private lives and into our personal security and the heads of our children. we got to close that door. the only thing to do, laura, is to ban it. you mentioned the biden administration, tiktok is not stupid. they went out and hired a pr firm that was founded by biden administration people. they are trying to purchase the democratic party right now. why are all these corporate media outlets rehearsing tiktok? tiktok is out there pushing this and buying influence of the democratic party. let s put it to a vote. let s just see what the tally is. let s see who s willing to ban this thing. senator, thank you very much. separate from the national security and data collection concerns is what tiktok is doing to our kids. last year a federal judge in pennsylvania found that section 230 protected tiktok from being
corporate structure ties to the ccp. that was while now it was back in july of 2020. i don t know if you remember this, but i pressed the former cia director and then trump secretary of state mike pompeo on the threat posed by tiktok. shouldn t we be considering right now, tonight a ban on chinese social media apps, especially tiktok? i don t want to get in front of the president, but it s something we re looking. would you recommend that people download that up on their phones tonight? tomorrow, any time? currently, only if you want your private information in the hands of the chinese communist party. now, exactly one month after that interview aired, then president trump signed an executive order that would have essentially banned tiktok in the united states . but in june of 2020 one , biden fully reversed the ban. now, since then, the intel assessments about tock have only gotten worse. one sixth of american youth
that problem. china s 2017 national intelligence law states very clearly that, quote, any organization or citizen shall support, assist and cooperate with state intelligence. in other words, byte dance and also your tick tock employees that live in china, they must cooperate with chinese intelligence whenever they are called upon. if the ccp tells bite dance to turn over all data that tiktok is collected inside the u.s.. congressman, first, i m singaporean. that s fine, but there are employees of yours and by dance s in china, we understand his concern. we build something where we take that data and put it out of reach. even democrats didn t seem to be buying it today. that mr. chu is creepy, not credible. i still believe that the beijing communist government will still control and have the ability to influence what you do. you re trying to give the impression that you re a good actor, but the commitments that we would seek to achieve those goals are not being made well thr
tiktok on your phone, china can track your location, they can track your keystrokes, they can read your phone messages, your contact list, all of this stuff. it s because the ccp effectively controls all major corporations in china and that absolutely includes tiktok. well, what s interesting to me is that mr. chu referred to the fact very quickly in his opening statement that the afp does not exist within china. so the afp does not operate within china itself. i was surprised that more of that wasn t made at the hearing itself. senator hawley, why if it s such a great app, why don t the chinese people have access to it? yeah, exactly. and the reason is , lura, this app is basically digital finial. that s what it is . it is not designed to make our lives better. it is designed to disrupt. it is designed to get into our kid s head. you look at the amount of suicide promotional material for example, that tiktok, it s off the charts. some of that was brought up at