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TikTok goes to Washington

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The Pros and Cons of the TikTok Hearings

McKenna: I think we can safely say China's not doing a lot of great things. And there is the very legitimate concern that they can use data from this application for nefarious means if they wanted to. If they wanted to target a lawmaker who was using TikTok to reach the youth, they could theoretically do that. But so could Facebook, so could Twitter, all of those apps could do. So could every single adventer on the planet, right? Like there's a lot of people with very extensive data. McCann: It doesn't seem like they're passing speech regulation. They seem really excited to censor people. They're like, China does it. Why don't we

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