This will be my thorough review of it, after the debacle claims from the East against U.S. Congress, which one can easily search online. But this is an American Bipartisan attack on China using a Singaporean as a strawman. It worked well for both American parties because as long as they got the "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" going, they won't have to worry about stepping on each other's foot. A clever person would see this flaw and could easily break these two parties right there and then. The Democrats care more about how much TikTok is making and not sharing or spending the profit "wisely" as a bottom line, the Republicans care more about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), But I think Chew's playing the normal role game, from a pragmatic side.
I believe Project Texas is just an additional measure that specifically cater to American policy and need. However, the Americans took it as patronizing. It would only seem patronizing if the Americans in their hubris think themselves the only absolute measure of world policy: As if what is fit for Americans, must also fit for the world, and thus Project Texas should be called Project Global. Although I'm curious how Project Texas is going to identify real American accounts? by Social Security Number?
@34:50 Mrs. Cathy Rodgers' first question was disingenuous as it wasn't really a question as she claimed so, but more of an accusation. She immediately jumped to the "next" question and expect a yes or no answer. This next question is about heating content, a way social media platforms suggest certain videos that align with users' interest. This is a fair but vague question. Fair because we don't want partiality, vague because the control if this is virtually impossible at a federal level against any companies. In other words, it's not the business of the government to police such partiality, most Republicans should know this, so I would have expected this from a Democrat like Frank Pallone and not a Republican like Rodgers. So nobody would answer no to this. It's clear she's trying to insinuate something.
@35:20 She then asked about the removal of videos associated with Uyghurs Genocide. This is now just a moral question based on false propaganda on the word "genocide" without proper historical context as I posted the video below answered by George Yeo in another talk, and then she went on to another China's problem, the ban on Tiananmen Massacre videos, even dared to insinuate Chew of lying. The funny part is she wanted to slap a "United States federal crime" label to a Singaporean who's invited to the States for his testimony. It would have been better if she had used "international law" or something of that sort:
@36:20 She wanted 100% certainty from Chew on security (100% no surveillance on Americans). She must be a fundamentalist.
@41:00 Pallone was basically insinuating something here by questioning the details from the general (i.e. Are you selling data?) which Chew answered well by saying he would get the details for him.
@47:00 Republican Michael Burgess of Texas' questions seem to show that he himself is a bit slow on understanding international matters: He seems to want to distinguish CCP from Chinese Government.
@50:00 California's Democrat Anna Eshoo. There's something I don't quite get is that the Congress kept saying "American data" as if they are putting the burden on TikTok to police real American data. How can a service company be certain of fake accounts? The best method I know of, though not 100% hacker proof, is to require some kind of federal identification such as SSN, etc. And I doubt any social media, including TikTok is requiring such identification. So how can they be sure of the involvement of American data. I think Eshoo thinks China = Singapore. But I think she also recognized her own lack of understanding in these matters and yielded back very quickly.
@55:00 Ohio Republican Bob Latta brought up a case that America's own judge threw out about suing TikTok for some choke challenge that caused the death of a 10 year old American girl. So it is a low blow. Not to mention TikTok's not the only media for problems like this. I think even AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), one of the Democrats that's most looked down by Republicans, is more clear minded about this.
@1:00:00 Democrat Diana DeGette of Colorado, her questions on the control of dangerous videos are not just limited to TikTok, but she wants it to be all about TikTok.
@1:06:00 Richard Hudson, Republican of North Carolina, became infamous with the question "Does TikTok access home wifi network?"
@1:11:19 Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, Democrat, just brought up bunch of possible fake news.
To be continued @1:15:34