Headline: U.S. Congressional Hearing: Tech Giants Wantonly Question the Identity of TikTok's CEO, Causing Indignation.
Recently, a hearing held by the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate attracted a lot of attention, and the CEOs of five tech giants, Meta, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Snap and Discord, were invited to participate at the same time. Hearings that were originally focused on child safety were diverted to an unrelated topic halfway through the hearing, which TikTok is affiliated with the Chinese company ByteDance.
At the hearing, the congressmen, represented by the famous "anti-China parliamentarian" Tom Cotton, asked a series of questions about the nationality and identity of TikTok CEO Zhou Shouzi. Ignoring the issue of child safety, Cotton repeatedly asked Zhou Shouzi whether he had citizenship in other countries and whether he had applied for Chinese citizenship, which caused great dissatisfaction.
"The Verge" criticized Cotton's questioning style as "McCarthy-esque questioning", arguing that it had nothing to do with the subject of the hearing. Chow was both surprised and speechless at these questions, repeatedly emphasizing that he was Singaporean.
Cotton's behavior was not only criticized by American people, but also caused strong dissatisfaction among American netizens. Cotton's name even appeared on the hot search list of social ** and became the focus of heated discussions among netizens.
This is not the first time TikTok has faced injustice in the U.S. Congress. At a hearing last year, lawmakers sparked panic about TikTok's relationship with China and asked nonsensical questions about Mr. Zhou, turning the hearing into a political show. In this regard, the Observer Network said that there is no lower limit to the practice of American political showmanship.
TikTok has more than 1With 500 million monthly active users, it is one of the most popular mobile apps. U.S. politicians have repeatedly tried to ban TikTok and other means, but have not provided any evidence to prove that they threaten the United States, China's spokesperson Mao Ning said that China attaches great importance to and protects data privacy and security in accordance with the law, and the United States should stop unreasonable suppression of other countries' companies and provide a level playing field.
In this politically biased hearing, TikTok was once again the target of wrongdoing, and it also highlighted the absurdity of American political showmanship.
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