Members of the Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee — and evidently so does most of the Gen Z audience who watched those largely clueless legislators grill TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in a marathon hearing on Thursday.

Source: https://www.salon.com/2023/03/26/gross-spectacle-tiktok-hearing-on-capitol-hill-goes-off-the-rails-into-bizarre/

On Thursday TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew defend his company before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11892295/Squad-member-BACKS-TikTok-Bowman-says-Republicans-want-ban-app-aint-got-no-swag.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

On Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified earlier than the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Source: https://basquiatstrings.co.uk/chinese-non-profit-app-advocate-squad-received-150000-from-its-parent-company-bt-news

That is the scenario that the House Energy and Commerce Committee wants to prevent.

Source: https://www.samfordcrimson.com/online-marketplaces-social-media-platforms-under-fire-by-congress-over-recalled-products-2023-09-01.html

The House Energy and Commerce Committee Monday that it will discuss the heavily scrutinized app's consumer privacy and data security, the app's influence on children and the app's relationship with the Chinese government through parent company ByteDance.

Source: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/tiktok-ceo-to-testify-before-house-panel-in-march/

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Thursday that “spying” is not the right word for alleged Chinese surveillance of Americans using his company’s social media platform.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/03/23/tiktok-ceo-spying-not-right-word-for-surveillance-of-americans-on-behalf-of-chinese-communists/

TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew, who is the father of two children, told the US House Energy and Commerce Committee that he doesn’t let his minor kids use the app, while discussing the protection of Americans who use the application.

Source: https://centralrecorder.com/shou-zi-chew-has-two-children-vivian-kao-and-shou-zi/

“We do not trust TikTok will ever embrace American values,” said Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican of Washington and the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which held the hearing.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/technology/tiktok-hearing-congress-china.html

“Your platform should be banned,” House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers said as she started the hearing, claiming that the app has ties with Chinese government.

Source: https://thefrontierpost.com/china-denounces-us-tiktok-ban-threat-as-xenophobic/