The Truth About TikTok: FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
“Right when TikTok was negotiating a national security agreement with U.S. officials, a Beijing-based team surveilled the location of journalists who’ve been writing negative stories about TikTok. And the evidence at this point of their real national security threat is very clear.”
Brendan Carr serves as the senior Republican commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission. He has testified before Congress about the unique national security threat to America posed by the video-hosting service TikTok.
“Any entity that is inside of China, particularly if they’re a CCP [Chinese Communist Party] member, is compelled by a national security law in China to do the bidding of the CCP surveillance apparatus—and to keep it secret,” says Mr. Carr.
He argues that new legislation in the House of Representatives would force the decoupling of TikTok from its Chinese parent.
“[Americans] have a right to exchange information on that platform. But there is no constitutional protection that requires the government to let a national security threat like TikTok persist,” says Mr. Carr.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to American thought leaders now. I'm Yanya Kelleck. |
| 0:08.2 | Today our very special guest is FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. |
| 0:12.2 | Brendan so good to have you. Yeah great to be back with is FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. |
| 0:13.0 | Brendan's so good to have you. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, great to be back with you. |
| 0:15.0 | Thanks so much. |
| 0:16.0 | Well, the issue at hand is TikTok. |
| 0:19.0 | TikTok is often portrayed as a privacy issue, as an issue of free speech, but it's actually much |
| 0:26.1 | more than that. |
| 0:27.1 | And you've laid it out incredibly in this recent NewsMax op-ed. |
| 0:30.7 | I want to go through the whole picture with you. So start me off here. |
| 0:34.0 | Yeah, thanks so much. A lot of people look at Tik-Tok and I think it's just another fun |
| 0:37.0 | application for sharing dance videos and the reality is that Tik-Tok collects a |
| 0:41.5 | tremendous amount of sensitive data on out millions of Americans. |
| 0:46.6 | Its search and browsing history, key stroke patterns, biometrics, location information. |
| 0:51.5 | In for years, TikTokToc officials represented to U.S. |
| 0:54.9 | lawmakers that none of that data, or essentially none of that data, made its way |
| 0:59.2 | back inside China. And then lo and behold in 2022 a blockbuster story broke open that got leaked |
| 1:06.2 | internal Tik-Toc communications that showed no. In fact, quote, everything is seen |
| 1:11.6 | inside of China. And they now have a track record of espionage and |
| 1:16.8 | foreign influence that is deeply, deeply concerning from a national security |
| 1:21.1 | perspective. |
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