the scourge of human trafficking is one of the biggest crises of our time. 25 million around the world are being pushed into firelessed labor or sex trade against their will. generating $150 billion every year. a lot of that activity taking place right here at home in the u.s. we see human trafficking across all 50 states and really it can happen in any of the 50 states. last year in 2021 the national trafficking hotline had over 50,000 calls into the hotline and more than 16,000 of those were likely survivors of human trafficking. bill: eric shawn is on this story more on how it can happen and what is being done to put an end to it. good morning. good morning. one of the heartbreaking tolls of the migrant crisis is human trafficking. the product moved by those cartels are people. trafficking for labor or commercial sex work is a booming business in the southern border. the feds say trafficking has been lucrative for the mexican base trans national criminal organization
The popular short-video app says a federal agency has said it will be banned in the United States unless its Chinese owners sell their shares. Not surprisingly, users are pushing back.
bill: take tiktok. the head is coming to the hill in a month. we ll see what happens. a lot of governments across the country are saying ban it. kick it off. would you go further than that? if we are going to ban tiktok not because it is bad for kids it is because it has a connection to the chinese government, right? so we shouldn t expect that banning tiktok will solve our social media problem because snapchat, instagram and youtube, there will be another tiktok showing up six months from now. we need to protect our national security by restricting access to tiktok or banning that. i m in for that conversation. i don t want that to be our solution to what plagues our kids lives today. ultimately something will just replace tiktok. we have to get in the business of common sense regulation of social media. it doesn t make sense that we regulate so many things in the world today but no restrictions on how these social media companies are corrupting our
GETTR CEO Jason Miller argues TikTok gathering the "psychographic analysis" of users gives China the "upper hand" in its data information war against the U.S.