Posted on 03/28/2023 1:13:31 PM PDT by Cronos
The questions posed by the boomers who dominated the committee have been shared widely across the internet, clearly showing how the lawmakers were out of their depth trying to put the chief executive of one of the world’s most popular social media platforms on the spot.
Some of the questions seemed to be the brainchild of WhatsApp University’s course on absurd conspiracy theories
Here, we look at five of the most ludicrous questions.
1. Mr Chew, does TikTok access the home wifi network? A visibly confused Chew responded that he did not understand the question posed by representative Richard Hudson.
When the question was repeated, Chew, after a long pause, said that it does [access the wifi] like many other apps in the industry.
2. What is your salary? In a bid to prove the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party, ByteDance and TikTok, several personal questions were asked of the CEO. Besides his salary, he was also asked if he owns shares in ByteDance or Douyin. Chew refused to answer all questions, and rightfully so. Being a representative of a company does not mean that an individual is compelled to disclose their personal assets.
3. Why do you need to know where the eyes are if you’re not seeing if they’re dilated? One of the representatives asked if the application uses the phone’s camera to determine a pupil’s dilation.
Chew responded that the eyes are only detected when a user uses a filter and that is required only because the eye position needs to be detected for the filter to apply.
He also added that the app does not collect data, which is stored locally and deleted. The politician responded: “I find that hard to believe”.
Perhaps, the congressman’s children can now explain to him what a filter is and how they are part of all social media apps around the world.
4. Are you a Chinese company? This question, even though it was addressed by Chew in his opening speech when he said that the company was headquartered in Singapore and Los Angeles, was asked five more times in different ways.
Despite his answer remaining the same every time, the committee’s members seemed unable to accept the fact.
5. That would include you, Mr Chew? And finally, when talking about a Chinese law which mandates citizens to help intelligence agencies and maintain secrecy, Representative Dan Crenshaw asked Chew a hypothetical question.
“If you’re ever called by by the Chinese government, would you give them TikTok data?”
“I’m a Singaporean,” Chew responded.
Maybe the better question would be does it access the network without the user launching the app.
If you’re phone is on the network all your apps are on the network. And since phone apps don’t fully turn off then yes. Exact same answer for you map app, calculator, and email.
Sounds they were doing retina scans for a bio ID
The real question is whether they use the wifi network to only go directly to the internet, or do they capture other programs’ traffic or even other devices’ traffic?
Your eyes will dilate if you see pictures of bewbs or pizza or classic cars/bikes. This data is collected and stored about you. You will then get more ads featuring boobs and pizza - often resting on cars/bikes as a consequence.
“The real question is whether they use the wifi network to only go directly to the internet, or do they capture other programs’ traffic or even other devices’ traffic?”
If they can capture other apps data then that is a flaw in the operating system. Android and iOS should not allow apps to access other apps data.
ByteDance is China.
Mr Chew, does TikTok access the home wifi network?
Oh yes. Love it! They have him cornered NOW!
Let them get a retinal scan of the brown eye.
5. That would include you, Mr Chew? And finally, when talking about a Chinese law which mandates citizens to help intelligence agencies and maintain secrecy, Representative Dan Crenshaw asked Chew a hypothetical question.
“If you’re ever called by by the Chinese government, would you give them TikTok data?”
“I’m a Singaporean,” Chew responded.
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Singapore is of course part of China. So he’s a patriotic, loyal Chinese. In other words he’s a Party member.
6. [unasked question] As a Singaporean, having been born in Singapore, do you still have relatives in that mainland Chinese city?
ByteDance is China.
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China is Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping is Emperor of China.
That’s really all about how you setup your wifi. You can create an account that can go nowhere but the internet, log your phone in with that and all is well. If you don’t, well there you. In that regard it’s no different than anything else on you network. Any laptop, computer, smartTV, alarm system or anything all have the same capabilities.
Too funny !!!!!
TikTok aka a placebo for the selfie nation
Singapore is of course part of China. So he’s a patriotic, loyal Chinese. In other words he’s a Party member.
That is the most illogical thing posted on Free Republic in the last year.
Singapore (/ˈsɪŋ(ɡ)əpɔːr/ (listen)), officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor to the north.
Singapore is 1,300 miles from the Chinese border as the crow flies. It in no way has anything to do with the country of China.
Mr Chew, does TikTok access the home wifi network?
And does it explore the network aside from communicating out?
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