And of course, what they have done is they have strengthened their surveillance state in ways that George Orwell could never have imagined. “There were people saying that China would liberalize as a result of the internet, China would democratize as a result of the internet. I think we can do better than that as a nation, I think we can do better than that as a country, and the sooner we ban this, the better.” “ now hypnotizing us with TikTok, which the Average American spends three weeks a year on. Now he’s saying something different in his testimony to the committee.” “When he was in my office, the CEO admitted to me that my interpretation of Chinese law was correct, which was that any time the CPP wanted to say: we’re going to have the data turned over, that ByteDance, and therefore TikTok, had a legal obligation to turn that data over. “I know what we’re going to hear, which is that we should believe that it’s OK for a wholly-owned subsidiary of ByteDance, that’s controlled by the CCP, to do what it wants in America when it’s been banned in China.” On what he expects to hear from the TikTok CEO: After calling on Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai to remove TikTok from their app stores, Bennet met with Chew to express his concerns about the platform’s risk to young Americans and our national security. Senator Michael Bennet joined MSNBC’s Morning Joe ahead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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