new customers and to fuel their growth new customers and to fuel their growth. now, as tiktok has grown, we have had growth. now, as tiktok has grown, we have had to growth. now, as tiktok has grown, we have had to learn the lessons of companies have had to learn the lessons of companies that have come before us, especially companies that have come before us, especially when it comes to the safety especially when it comes to the safety of especially when it comes to the safety of teenagers. while the vast majority safety of teenagers. while the vast majority of people on tiktok are over majority of people on tiktok are over 18, majority of people on tiktok are over18, one majority of people on tiktok are over 18, one of our fastest growing demographics are people over 35, and we have demographics are people over 35, and we have spent a lot of time adopting measures we have spent a lot of time adopting measures to protect teenagers. many of those measures to prote
their innocence. within minutes of creating an account, your algorithm can promote suicide, self harm and eating disorders to children, and it encourages challenges for them to put their lives in danger and allows adults to prey on our beautiful, beloved daughters. it is also a portal for drug beloved daughters. it is also a portalfor drug dealers beloved daughters. it is also a portal for drug dealers to sell illicit funds and all that china has banned, yet is helping mexican cartels produce. send them across our border and poison our children. in china be ccp proactively prohibits this type of tiktok content that promotes death and despair to kids. from the data it collected to the content it controls, tiktok is a grave threat of foreign influence on american life. it has been said it is like allowing the soviet union the power to produce saturday morning cartoons during the cold war. but much more powerful and much more dangerous.
hearing am glad that we are having this hearing today. big tech has transformed the information super highway transformed the information super highway into a super spread of harmful highway into a super spread of harmful content, invasive surveillance practices and addictive and damaging design features. data is and damaging design features. data is ijil and damaging design features. data is big tech s most valuable commodity and by collecting far more user data commodity and by collecting far more user data than they need, big tech platforms user data than they need, big tech platforms can use, share and sell information to generate billions of dollars information to generate billions of dollars of information to generate billions of dollars of revenue. today the american dollars of revenue. today the american people are powerless to stop this american people are powerless to stop this invasion of their pregnancy and we cannot wait any longer pregnancy and we cannot wa
thatis it hasn t been proven yet, i think that is at the core of some of the concerns that we are going to be hearing today. concerns that we are going to be hearing today- concerns that we are going to be hearing today. concerns that we are going to be hearin: toda . ,, , ., , ., hearing today. stephanie, is there a case for saying hearing today. stephanie, is there a case for saying that hearing today. stephanie, is there a case for saying that tiktok - hearing today. stephanie, is there a case for saying that tiktok is - case for saying that tiktok is materially different, notjust because of that question of ultimate ability of the chinese authorities insofar as they can access data to demand access to data, but is it from companies that have this exposure in china, but also this question of the kind of basic argument, can it apply to other areas of business as well? because one of the criticism is often raised and one of the concerns often expressed by those who consider doing
imaginable, from people s location to what they type and copy, who they talk to, biometric data and more. evenif talk to, biometric data and more. even if they have never been on tiktok, your trackers are embedded in sites across the web. tiktok surveillance us all. and the chinese communist party is able to use this as a tool to manipulate america as a whole. we do not trust tiktok will ever embrace american values, values forfreedom, human rights and innovation. tiktok has repeatedly chosen the path for more control, more surveillance and more manipulation. your platform should be banned. i expect today you will say anything to avoid this outcome, like you are 100% responsible for what tiktok does, that you suddenly endorse a national data privacy standards, that project texas is more than a marketing scheme, that