U.S. Lawmakers Appear Unmoved by Tiktok CEO's Defense of App

By artappraiser on Fri, 03/24/2023 - 2:11pm |

Covered a lot of hearings over the years and very few like this one: Where both sides spend hours bashing one witness. Typically, one side defends the witness and the other side attacks.
Today, both went after the TikToK CEO.
And now momentum is growing for a nationwide ban pic.twitter.com/WDfb4vuhao
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 23, 2023

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https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1639036006396727296?s=20

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Asked Hakeem Jeffries after hearing if he supports national ban on TikTok. “We’re in conversation with each other within the House Democratic Caucus, to see where a consensus position might be in order to address the serious TikTok concerns that have been raised (over) security”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 24, 2023

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/24/2023 - 2:12pm

Zoomers threaten Democrats #savetiktok

@harryjsisson I won hundred percent agree with you on everything. You just said it is political suicide I would invite you to start a national protest. #savetiktok. If you can get a hold of former President Obama, and other elected officials in Congress, pic.twitter.com/MYSLNlNhJG
— Seamus lit Connolly (@seamus_lit) March 24, 2023

ACLU too:

A ban on TikTok would violate the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans who use the app to express themselves daily. pic.twitter.com/rCvCTMOza7
— ACLU (@ACLU) February 27, 2023

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/24/2023 - 2:16pm

YIKES!

We know muthafuckas!! pic.twitter.com/CGDr2wevCN
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) March 26, 2023

And I get the feeling that neither of them care whether a congressperson has an R or a D after their name

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/26/2023 - 9:18pm

Oh, Dan Crenshaw definitely cares.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/27/2023 - 10:31am

Alongside the TikTok hearing yesterday, we saw a number of headlines saying "China firmly opposes" a forced sale of TikTok. But I'm not sure this was the strong signal the headlines made it seem. A on why: pic.twitter.com/Sa4eP11JHl
— Matt Schrader (@Matt_Schrader_) March 24, 2023

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/24/2023 - 3:40pm

I don't think it would be not-impactful to ban TikTok, but I think you'd also be surprised how quickly it wouldn't matter. We don't have any good examples of how this would work in the US, but I recently wrote about how India and Russia handled their bans:https://t.co/LYu139JGNL pic.twitter.com/PTfp8R3LPw
— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) March 24, 2023

Also I highly recommend this piece from @restofworld about India post-TikTok ban https://t.co/OyWFk686lZ
— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) March 24, 2023

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/24/2023 - 8:52pm

U.S. Lawmakers Appear Unmoved by Tiktok CEO's Defense of App

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