"Xi Jinping has made it clear that he’s trying to build this new society that will be driven by this total surveillance state…this is where the #TikTok & the ByteDance connection becomes extremely problematic…This is a company that was based in China. It was a company that will be responsive to Chinese law under requests, & yet they’re expanding in this massive way in America. And there wasn’t even a CFIUS review at the beginning. That should sound alarm bells. You know, why did TikTok decide not to do that review? It’s as if they kind-of snuck into the market."…

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