{"id":150334,"date":"2023-03-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=915625"},"modified":"2023-03-24T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:00:00","slug":"the-10-craziest-moments-from-congress-tiktok-ban-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2023\/03\/24\/the-10-craziest-moments-from-congress-tiktok-ban-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Craziest Moments From Congress\u2019 TikTok Ban Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"MediaIntel.Asia\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified in a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday. It was Chew\u2019s first major introduction to the public, and it didn\u2019t make for a smooth entry.<br \/>\nRepresentatives from across the political spectrum hammered the beleaguered CEO, accusing him of aiding in a Chinese plot to undercut American power and corrupt the nation\u2019s youth. Congress pressed Chew with a variety of accusations, some reasonable and some otherwise, typically interrupting him before he could finish responding. When he was allowed to speak, he dodged some of the tougher questions , or declined to answer all together.<br \/>\nFor the past four years, the government has been locked in a battle with TikTok, arguing the app\u2019s connection to China could expose user data to the Chinese Communist Party. Most recently, the Biden administration threatened a nationwide ban if TikTok\u2019s parent company ByteDance doesn\u2019t sell the app. Chew \u2019s argument, more or less, is that TikTok isn\u2019t a threat, and it\u2019s too important to ban. You can read Gizmodo\u2019s in-depth analysis of the TikTok CEO\u2019s remarks here.<br \/>\nLike all the past hearings with browbeaten tech CEOs, it was a wild ride full of political stunts, ham-fisted misunderstandings of the internet, and the occasional surprising revelation. Here are the 10 craziest moments from the TikTok CEO\u2019s congressional hearing.<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified in a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday. It was Chew\u2019s first major introduction to the public, and it didn\u2019t make for a smooth entry.<br \/>\nRepresentatives from across the political spectrum ham&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,4,194,222,465,1542],"tags":[10320,3686,10309,3472,10321,1696,10315,10310,10351],"class_list":["post-150334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-internet","category-news-chinese-law","category-online-video","category-social-media","category-technology","tag-biden","tag-boycott","tag-bytedance","tag-chinese","tag-communist","tag-congress","tag-media-intelligence","tag-tiktok","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150335,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150334\/revisions\/150335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}