On March 23, Zhou, the president of the social media platform TIKTOK, was funded at the US House of Representatives Energy and Commercial Commission hearing, and received a five -hour torture of many members.This hearing attracted the attention of many Singaporeans, mainly because Zhou's capital was Singaporeans.Many people also know that there is such a Singaporean who serves as president in foreign companies.
Most people read the hearing or related fragments, maybe a common impression: Zhou's capital performed very patiently, he was polite, but Xiu only met his soldiers, tortured his American lawmakers, including chairman, and groups.Siege, there is no grace and rules at all.They said that Tiktok was controlled by the Chinese government, threatening US national security, hidden dangers of US user data, and platform content endangered the health of young people.
This hearing is actually a long -established political show. The purpose is not the hearing, but it wants to set up Tiktok to death.Everyone knows that anti -China is the consensus between the United States Republic and Democratic Party, and attacking Tiktok is intended to Pei Gong.However, the current hysterical anti -China Communist Party, which is currently reminiscent of the McCarthy (then Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy), which appeared in the 1950s.
Coincidentally, the current Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States is also a Republican. He is also a anti -China pioneer.
He originally wanted to imitate Pelosi to visit Taiwan. Now he is said to have changed his plan to meet in Taiwan, which is in the United States and transit.After this hearing, McCarthy said he believed that Congress would handle national security concerns caused by Tiktok through two parties legislation.He believes that the testimony of Zhou's capital in Congress is "very worrying."This shows that the hearing is just a show.What the US Congress wants to do is actually a foregone conclusion.
Tiktok is the overseas version of the Chinese short video platform. Its parent company is bytedance. Born in China, it became its original sin.In the fierce game of the United States and China, it is like Huawei and cannot escape to become a pawn.
At the current atmosphere of anti -China and anti -Communist Communities in the United States, Zhou was funded to attend the hearing, as if he was single to the Hongmen banquet.However, the so -called public gold, even if he argued that there was no obstacle, it would not help.Facing the siege and uninterrupted white grabbing, it has always maintained elegance and encouraged the opponent's anger.However, after all, Zhou Shengzheng is not a politician, and it is commendable to keep calmly calmly dealing with violent artillery fire.
In all fairness, Tiktok and other American social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, etc. are just loved by young people and every in the United StatesThere are up to 150 million active users in the month.The allegations it receives is like American social media such as Facebook, but it is just one more suspected: it may be used by the mainland government, so it is also endangered the national security of the United States.
In October 2021, Faces Haugen, the former product manager of Facebook, exposed the scar on the hearing of the US Congress, pointing out that Facebook products have problems that endanger children, enlarge prejudice, encourage bipolarization and other problems.The company's senior management knows how to make Facebook and Instagram more secure, but indifferent, because they always put profits on safety.
Tiktok's real "sin"?The answer is: it endangers the commercial interests of American companies.Like the earlier Huawei mobile phone, Tiktok made the first taboo: the cheese of the American similar social platforms (such as Facebook) moved.
Social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter have also been questioned by the hearing of the United States Congress. The content of the inquiry also includes the abuse of data, manipulating users, endangering adolescents, etc., but after some political shows, it was gone.Facebook broke out a few years ago that the big amount of user data was obtained by Cambridge Analytica, which was analyzed by British Political Data Company.
Social media giants use modern technology to collect user data, and then use these huge data to make money and make money. It is known to be known and it is also a business means shared in this industry.However, US local companies can do whatever they want, while foreign peers do not work.Therefore, Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and president of Meta, has been poisoning Tiktok, a foreign competitor.In 2019, when Zuckerberg delivered a speech on freedom of speech in Washington Special Administrative Region, he used to warn the threat from Chinese technology companies from that occasion. More specifically, it was a warning of "threats" of TIKTOK.
This should have a certain relationship with Facebook since 2009.Zuckerberg looked for a chance to report an arrow.He told George's students that Tiktok did not agree with Facebook's commitment to freedom of speech, and constituted risks for American values and technical dominance.The Wall Street Journal later quoted some people familiar with the matter, saying that Zuckerberg's trip to Washington also attended a private dinner held in the White House and pointed out to then US President Trump that the rise of Chinese Internet companies threatenedAmerican companies.This should be a question that is more concerned than restricting Facebook.
This is a poisonous means of competition in the mall.At that time, Trump accused Facebook and Twitter reviewing his speech and favorable Democrats, and said that he had to deal with them through an administrative order.Zuckerberg cleverly came to a "Qian Kun" and resolved the crisis with "threat from China".In 2020, Trump signed an administrative order to disable TIKTOK, and required byte beating into the business in the United States.But Tiktok proposed legal challenges that the ban could not be implemented.In 2021, President Biden canceled the administrative order, but now changed his mind.
Some analysts believe that it is not easy for the US government to ban TIKTOK, because it violates the provisions of the freedom of speech on the first amendment of the Constitution.The Chinese government prohibits American platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp. It is not easy for the U.S. government to only have a byte beating and sale of TIKTOK in the United States. Which US company is willing to take this hot potato?
But this can at least hurt Tiktok.To be sure, American politicians and corporate giants will continue to try to deal with Chinese companies capable of competing with them.TIKTOK sent a capable Singaporean president to fight, the Raptors crossed the river, and rationally defended it, but under the heavy McCarthy -style atmosphere, rationality was useless at all.
The author is a former journalist, a former member of the Congress
