concern? why is ticktock it s silly, fun dance videos. why are those considered national security issues? right. really two issues here. overarching all of them is a reality that ticktock owned by a chinese-based company called bytedance that own as good number of apps. many of which actually aren t in use in the united states. so china has much different standards than the u.s. does with respect to free speech and free xprenexpression and the th you can say around cultural or politically sensitive issues and a different set of issues when it comes to privacy and what the government can access with respect to user data. asking the question, wait. is the chinese government able to have some sort of influence on the decisions that this app makes about videos? the things that you see? using a different set of values? are they able to access that data? we should point out here that ticktock said in a couple instances it is independent. it s not falling victim to the chinese government.