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going out, whether it's next year or the following year, I just don't see a future in which the CCP and ByteDance can continue to have the same degree of control over TikTok that they once, that they once enjoyed.
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going out, whether it's next year or the following year, I just don't see a future in which the CCP and ByteDance can continue to have the same degree of control over TikTok that they once, that they once enjoyed.
I think the answer is this, we need to require the genuine divestment of all ties back to CCP. So getting rid of ByteDance, getting rid of all CCP controls, the platform itself, I don't have a problem with people doing short form videos. The problem is it being, you know, connected back to the CCP.
Yeah, I just don't think it, I just don't think it withstands, you know, sort of even casual scrutiny. Again, I think you can look at it, you know, narrowly, or again, just the macro view that, you know, come on, the federal government is relying on Starlink, um, entering into contracts with them. So the idea that, you know, it's not a reliable technology, just, it just doesn't, you know, seem to make sense. Good enough for the military, good enough for a rural farm. I think we can all, uh, or g
They're going to enter into contracts with Elon Musk, Starlink for this, but where they think they can get away with it, where it's not going to actually compromise one of their own policy priorities. Then you see actions like the revocation of, of the Starlink award.
So yeah, you can look at it as $1,300 in subsidy for Starlink versus almost $5,000.
But yes, if you're looking at this from the perspective of how do we quickly and efficiently bridge the digital divide, then looking at something like Starlink or Amazon Kuiper when it gets going, um, that would be the most efficient way.
It's what we're talking about. It's the efficient use of resource, but also time, right? I mean, you can get a Starlink system virtually overnight. Whereas if the federal government says, wait, I think fiber is better. It's a better technology in my view as a government. Okay, fine. What, four, five years to trench the conduit, get the permitting process done. So it's both money and speed of connectivity.
with this Starlink technology, we were providing as a government, we're planning on about $1,300 per location and a subsidy to make sure that Starlink would be available there.
we really sort of created an entirely new standard and applied it only to one of those 180 winners, which was Starlink and said, look, since you're not doing 120 today, we're not, you know, reasonably confident that you're going to do it in the future. And again, it was a backwards decision, too, because they looked at the Starship, the Starship launches and they said, well, those have been failures. And I'm thinking to myself, you know, we made fun of trade press that thought that those were fa
I'm concerned about that as well. I mean, look, it's very similar to what's going on with with TikTok in the sense that these are very sophisticated platforms. And so I put out a call almost a year ago now, again, asking our national security agencies to give a thumbs up or thumbs down with their final view. I think there's enough there for me to be concerned. You know, they're obviously can collect everything from, you know, facial recognition to body temperatures to high resolution images. Som
Katie bar the doors, it goes right to the CCP.
The only reason why ByteDance exists in China is because they are, you know, helping the CCP to stay in power, if they weren't, they wouldn't be there.
they're right now amassing probably the world's most sophisticated data collection and AI operation
It continues to proliferate. In fact, I'll be testifying later this week, at a house hearing where we talk about tick tock in the context of the military, in the sense that it's still very, very popular, even though it's banned from official devices.
We got to go faster, we can't just sort of have the status quo of data going back to China.
That's what I think should happen. I mean, look, India, the world's largest democracy has taken that action.
Google and Apple, you have app stores, you represent that they're safe places to go and download things. And you have policies that directly deal with data flows. And if an entity is misrepresenting where your data is going, that's a violation of your app store policy, and they've enforced it before, they've kicked apps out where data has touched servers in China surreptitiously or otherwise engage in surreptitious data flow.