Those were the two major arguments. There was some other stuff to mention as well. First, they seemed to assume that tik tok gets revenue from you just by being on the app. That’s technically true but the revenue is funded by ads with Target or Burger King. And nobody even needs to see them cause you can just keep scrolling if one pops up. One guy said something about “but we know you want our kids addicted to your app to keep filling your pockets, just like the other sites”. That’s just incorrect. Firstly, at this point, Chew already said that the largest demographic was adults and secondly, “Whopper Whopper Whopper Whopper” is paying them. Not actual screen time of the app. “Oh shit, I watched 2 hours of tik tok today, China got $400 dollars off of me” like no wrong. How do they think tv channels make money?
I want to now characterize Chew for you because when I say he’s the most polite CEO, and I’m saying that because he has to be in this atmosphere. In the eyes of Congress here, he’s just some lowly merchant at the mercy of the king. I don’t know who was on his team to prepare him for today but it doesn’t matter. I don’t care if he got Jiraya, Roshi, Rayleigh, Gojo, Stick, or Seto Kaiba, no amount of training was going to prepare him for how absolutely rude they were to him. Do they feel proud of themselves after shouting, interrupting, ignoring, and spitting on this man? They metaphorically whipped him, fucked his wife, stole from his kids, beat him, and fucked his wife again for what? An app that you can’t even say nigger on? It was not just frustrating because they were retarded but they were also disgustingly evil, holy hell. Most would start off polite as they explained their issue and immediately after he gave an answer, they would get all emotional, defensive, offensive, and act like he’s out of line. There were only three members who didn’t condescend or treat him with bad faith. The rest felt like they were talking to Hitler or Mao himself. Funny enough, you knew a conservative was speaking when they mentioned how outstanding it was that Chew ‘united’ the two parties against him. To be honest, I’m happy I was just an audience member. Two hours in, I would have been exhausted from trying to dare respond to their questions. I would’ve ended up just critiquing them for wasting their own time interrupting me when I’m trying to give a concise answer.
For Chew, he was expertly trained to be super polite. He started every response with a formal “Mr/Mrs Congress-person”. He would add “it is to my understanding” to not legally fuck himself and say “with most respect” whenever he was about to say something that may anger them. Basically he came like he was talking to the Emperor of China. And I do feel that his freedom of speech was greatly retarded by their attitude toward him since he spoke up once and only a few times was able to successfully beg for a chance to elaborate. Most times he begged the Chair for room to clarify, she just moved on to the next person. How were they supposed to get anything out of this? Again, I learned half as much as possible because of them. He didn’t try to use unintelligible jargon, he was okay with repeating himself 100 times, he politely asked them to repeat if he didn’t understand, he cracked a few jokes, and NEVER condescended. They were so condescending about an app they never used. A few times he would state “if you would just open the app” to explain something obvious because to be honest, it doesn’t sound like they did any homework. It’s not even just the guy being confused on wifi but general confusion over even just the content of the app. Not once have I seen Chinese/Communist propaganda. There’s no subliminal messaging or ‘woke rhetoric’ from the app. Everything is just as positive as Chew says it is which is why he is so happy to defend it.
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