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• @tonyajoriley Tonya Riley on x

  TikTok's CEO on the company's data privacy practices. Notes it doesn't collect precise location data, employment/relationship status or even real names. Many of its social media peers *do* collect this data. https://docs.house.gov/... (h/t @viaCristiano ) https://twitter.com/...

• @jessicalessin Jessica Lessin on x

  Remember when Uber pushed you in the app to write a letter to politicians in cities trying to ban it? This is that. https://www.tiktok.com/...

• @tculpan Tim Culpan on x

  I think it's too little, too late ⁦⁦@tiktok_us⁩ The company had 4 years to build trust among policy makers. And... if this video is pushed to the top of everyone's feed, it'll just prove their point Our CEO, Shou Chew, shares a special message https://www.tiktok.com/...

• @bobbyallyn Bobby Allyn on x

  TikTok CEO Shou Chew to lawmakers in Washington on Thursday: “Let me state this unequivocally: ByteDance is not an agent of China or any other country.” Full remarks here he's expected to deliver to the House Energy and Commerce Committee: https://docs.house.gov/...

• @bresreports John Bresnahan on x

  Here's TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's opening statement for Thursday's hearing in the House Energy & Commerce Cmte. It was posted tonight: https://docs.house.gov/...

• @annmarie Annmarie Hordern on x

  TikTok's CEO takes to TikTok before testifying in Congress: “This comes at a pivotal moment for us. Some politicians have started talking about banning TiktTok. Now this could take TikTok away from all 150 million of you.” https://www.tiktok.com/...

• @viacristiano Cristiano Lima on x

  NEW: In his written testimony, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew pushes back on calls for a “ban that hurts American small businesses, damages the country's economy, silences the voices of over 150 million Americans, and reduces competition” https://docs.house.gov/...

• @markets @markets on x

  TikTok's CEO plans to tell Congress his app does more to protect young users than rival social media platforms as he tries to head off a US ban or forced sale https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• Vox Sara Morrison on x

  Is TikTok too big to ban?

• @sangernyt David Sanger on x

  It might sound like an easy fix: Force TikTok's parent company to sell the app to an American buyer, ending the national security concerns, or ban it entirely. Except that 150 million Americans use TikTok, the company says. And they vote. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @jameeljaffer Jameel Jaffer on x

  Is it really possible that this 2000-word article about the possibility that the Biden admin will ban Americans from accessing a major communications platform fails even to mention the First Amendment? https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @juliaangwin Julia Angwin on x

  Ban TikTok? Most of the national security allegations against TikTok could just as easily be levied against the U.S. tech giants. So let's pass laws forcing all tech to serve us better. My latest for @nytopinion: https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @juliaangwin Julia Angwin on x

  It would also set a dangerous precedent, which could encourage other nations to ban US tech, force US tech companies to sell assets or further force tech companies to comply with state censorship.

• @drantoniowrites Antonio, PhD on x

  I'm also laughing that U.S. wants to ban TikTok because China and spying but lacks critical thought about the U.S. . . . Like Twitter knows exactly where I am, too. lol https://twitter.com/...

• @china_digital @china_digital on x

  I get a lot of questions that I file under the heading “China whining”. They go “China is doing thing x that we don't like, how do we get them to stop?” The answer is nearly always: get your own house in order first. https://twitter.com/...

• @pmatzko Paul Matzko on x

  Rent-seeking behavior is as corrupting as it is natural, but we shouldn't ban TikTok to save companies like Facebook from more effective competition.

• @pmatzko Paul Matzko on x

  FB hired a consulting megafirm to astroturf letters to the editor at 100s of newspapers to hype up a TikTok moral panic. The goal? “Dream would be to get stories with headlines like ‘From dances to danger.’” It's targeted misinformation on a massive scale. https://www.washingtonp…

• @pmatzko Paul Matzko on x

  Here are three bad motives (and one good one) behind the calls for a TikTok ban. 🧵

• @evacide Eva on x

  @runasand ... If the Chinese government is in your threat model, don't install TikTok on your device. Otherwise, your actual problem is surveillance capitalism.

• @adamkovac Adam Kovacevich on x

  Imagine if, after Russia invaded Ukraine, we said “No, kicking RT off US airwaves is too harsh, we should take a comprehensive look at foreign propaganda instead.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @yaqiu Yaqiu Wang on x

  The comparison is wrong. Exploiting vulnerabilities of platforms that you don't control to disseminate disinformation and deploying the whole machinery that you control to disseminate disinformation are two very different things. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/..…

• @adamkovac Adam Kovacevich on x

  Fascinating to me to see longstanding tech critics suddenly become Whataboutists when it comes to TikTok https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @joetidy Joe Tidy on x

  Lot's of people are citing the (admittedly awful) breach of trust when TikTok staff in Beijing spied on western reporters last year. But US tech firms are also guilty of horrendous data issues that we largely ignore. This article is excellent: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://…

• @juliaangwin Julia Angwin on x

  A better solution is to pass laws that set minimum standards for all of our tech companies — starting with a comprehensive data privacy law. As @evan_greer says let's stop “xenophobic showboating” and get serious about tech regulation.

• @karlbode Karl Bode on x

  the tiktok moral panic is a distraction from our corrupt failure to regulate the data broker space and pass even a rudimentary privacy law for the internet era: https://twitter.com/...