If you can't see Meta's grubby paws all over this, you aren't looking. -- CDCHoo 03/24/2023 10:16AM
This TikTok Congressional hearing is the worst kind of grandstanding -- Fuzzy Dunlop 03/23/2023 11:30AM
Is TikTok used for gathering data / spying for China or not? ** -- ryno hoo 03/23/2023 12:21PM
Ask Youngkin, he has the inside info on TikTok ** -- HoodatB 03/23/2023 12:57PM
I'll bite. What kind of spying? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 12:25PM
I think it is a little more subtle than that. -- Faz d. Hoo 03/23/2023 2:38PM
I don't know. I'm asking. I'm learning. I'm always becoming smarter. -- ryno hoo 03/23/2023 12:36PM
It's not a bad question and I don't know the answer either. Looking at some -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 12:38PM
The answer might be, would you ban it if it was made -- ryno hoo 03/23/2023 12:48PM
I sometimes drink Stolichnaya. Is that the same thing? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 12:54PM
I didn’t think Stoli was Russian. ** -- Lazarus 03/23/2023 1:27PM
Yeah, I guess the one sold outside is made in Latvia or something. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 1:38PM
Yes. Like General Tsos chicken. ** -- ryno hoo 03/23/2023 12:59PM
Cut to the chase - give me the Tso what ** -- TomGlansAski 03/23/2023 1:28PM
LOL! Too sweet though. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 1:01PM
I guess I missed it. What's the concern about TikTok? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 12:09PM
That China using it to gather information on our citizens for weaknesses ** -- Oregon Hoo 03/23/2023 12:12PM
Meta's already given the Chinese government plenty of that. ** -- CDCHoo 03/24/2023 10:17AM
Tricks on them! -- 757 03/23/2023 12:52PM
Don't they already do that with high altitude balloons - without any r -- Lupos 03/23/2023 12:39PM
Chinese Balloon Terror!!! ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 12:40PM
I have lots of weaknesses but what is China going to do with -- BKhoo 03/23/2023 12:33PM
Agree, which is why I think it's kind of a dumb concern ** -- Oregon Hoo 03/24/2023 4:41PM
Isn't information gathering the problem with all social media? Indeed the -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 12:15PM
Yes, but not all funnel it to the CCP. ** -- Hoodafan 03/23/2023 12:38PM
TikTok doesn't do that either, and that's well documented... ** -- CDCHoo 03/24/2023 10:18AM
Hypothetically, what's the difference if the CCP has that data as opposed -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 12:40PM
Somewhat answered below, but at this point I don't think the concerns about -- Hoodafan 03/23/2023 12:51PM
That's a stretch. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 12:55PM
They're not bad folks, folks. -- Hoodafan 03/23/2023 1:15PM
“The joys of being transgender”? Seriously? ** -- BKhoo 03/25/2023 1:06PM
Huh? ** -- Wahoo Gus 03/23/2023 1:37PM
Don't put words in my mouth, Hooda. The dangers of social media are well -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 1:35PM
I suppose there's the theoretical possibility that they can use access to -- 81_Hokie 03/23/2023 12:22PM
How would that work? I don't see how that's possible. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 12:24PM
I'm certainly not web expert, but suppose there is something in the app -- 81_Hokie 03/23/2023 12:30PM
I suppose. But you don't necessarily need TikTok to do that. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 12:33PM
No, but Chinese authored tick Tik Tok app makes it easy for them. They -- 81_Hokie 03/23/2023 12:53PM
Apple disagrees ** -- BKhoo 03/23/2023 11:23PM
Do they actually "control" all those devices? If they did, why would they -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 12:56PM
I'm saying I think it's likely. they wouldn't want to brick them toda but -- 81_Hokie 03/23/2023 1:03PM
I can see the dangers to government devices. It seems the question is not -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 1:39PM
They just need to set off a chain reaction which shatters the series of -- BocaHoo91 03/23/2023 12:28PM
I don't think Congress is necessarily all wet with their concerns, but if -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 12:32PM
I think a lot of the concern is how they (with an assist from the CCP) then -- Hoodafan 03/23/2023 12:49PM
LOL! That's dubious AF. Social media already makes people brain dead.** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 12:58PM
They can learn to exploit our love for stupid people and pet tricks I guess -- Oregon Hoo 03/23/2023 12:42PM
In my day I had to walk uphill in the snow to see Lol Catz! ** -- Hoodafan 03/23/2023 12:56PM
OT: What's the word on the Greater Oregon movement? Idaho's -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 12:44PM
I can't see our Congress allowing this -- Oregon Hoo 03/23/2023 3:39PM
For starters, I can't see the Oregon legislature allowing it. But I would -- Seattle .Hoo 03/23/2023 4:20PM
Agree, Tina Kotek has made a point to visit every county in the state -- Oregon Hoo 03/23/2023 4:34PM
Just a territorial dispute ** -- Hoodeac 03/23/2023 1:39PM
GOP will never win another national election -- Hoodafan 03/23/2023 12:08PM
The GOP has given up on the national popular vote, right? -- HoodatB 03/23/2023 12:10PM
I'm not so sure that would be as certain as lefties want to believe, but -- Hoodafan 03/23/2023 12:36PM
Have you seen a projection from the left or right -- HoodatB 03/23/2023 1:03PM
It doesn't matter. That's not how we run elections. That's why I said it's -- Hoodafan 03/23/2023 1:26PM
Just create the equivalent of TikTok, only without its sketchy practices ** -- Hoo TV 03/23/2023 12:02PM
IKR?!?!? We need moar congressional investigations into Orange Asswipe!!! ** -- ResistHoo 03/23/2023 11:57AM
No grandstanding to ever be seen in those. ** -- Hoodafan 03/23/2023 12:09PM
You are describing most congressional hearings. ** -- SixerHoo 03/23/2023 11:55AM