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This TikTok Congressional hearing is the worst kind of grandstanding -- Fuzzy Dunlop 03/23/2023 11:30AM If you can't see Meta's grubby paws all over this, you aren't looking. -- CDCHoo 03/24/2023 10:16AM 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