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Why TikTok Should Be Banned in the United States | Exploring Privacy Concerns
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Mr Zuckerberg before my time expires Mr
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Chu let me just ask
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you your
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platform why should your platform not be
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banned in the United States of America
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you are owned by a Chinese Communist
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company or a company based in China the
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editorinchief of your parent company is
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a Communist Party secretary your company
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has been surveilling Americans for
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years according to leaked audio from
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more than 80 internal Tik Tock meetings
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china-based employees of your company
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have repeatedly accessed non-public data
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of United States citizens your company
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has tracked journalists improperly
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gaining access to their IP addresses
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user data in an attempt to identify
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whether they're writing negative stories
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about
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you why should your your platform is
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basically an Espionage arm for the
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Chinese Communist party why should you
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not be banned in the United States of
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America senator I disagree with your
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characterization many of what you have
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said we have explained in a lot of
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detail Tik Tok is used by 170 million
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Americans I know when every single one
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of those Americans are in danger from
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the fact that you track their keystrokes
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you track their app usage you track
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their location data and we know that all
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of that information can be accessed by
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Chinese employees who are subject to the
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dictat of the Chinese Communist party
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why should you not be banned in this in
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this country Senator that is not
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accurate a lot of what you describe we
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collect we don't it is 100% accurate do
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you deny that repeatedly Americans data
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has been accessed by bite dance
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employees in China we built a project
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that you know cost us billions of
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dollars to stop that and we have made a
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lot of progress and it hasn't been
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stopped according to the Wall Street
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Journal report from just
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yesterday even now bite dance workers
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without going through official channels
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have access to the private information
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of American citizens quoting from the
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article private information of American
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citizens including their birth date
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their IP address and more that's now
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Senator as we know the media doesn't
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always get it right what what we have
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what we have the Chinese Communist Party
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does I'm not saying that what I'm saying
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is that we have been we spent billions
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of dollars to build this project is
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rigorous it's robust it's unprecedented
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and I'm proud of the work that the 2,000
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employees are doing to protect the
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data it's not protected that's the
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problem Mr Chu it's not protected at all
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it's subject to communist Chinese party
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inspection and review your app unlike
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anybody else sitting here and heaven
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knows I've got problems with everybody
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here but your app unlike any of those is
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subject to the control and inspection of
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a foreign hostile government that has
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actively trying to track the information
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and whereabouts of every American they
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get their hands on your app ought to be
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banned in the United States of America
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for the security of this country thank
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you Mr
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chairman Senator
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Herona thank you Mr chairman um as
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