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Speaker: From thefreepress.com, how China got our kids hooked on digital fentanyl, TikTok is a national security threat.
Speaker: As the fastest growing social media app ever, it rankled American competitors Facebook and YouTube, which were banned in China.
Speaker: By October 2018, ByteDance was the world's most valuable startup with a valuation of $75 billion.
Speaker: Four years later, ByteDance is now worth $300 billion.
Speaker: And a quarter of American adults under 30 get their news from TikTok.
Speaker: Amateurs!
Speaker: Every day, every hour, every waking minute, TikTok is hovering up seemingly infinite bits of information about its users, their tastes, hobbies, political views, sexual preferences, their facial structure.
Speaker: So I like cat videos, Lou.
Speaker: I mean, what do I care if China knows?
Speaker: Any country, any powerful entity that needs to know or wants to know your likes as benign as cats is not an entity you should be empowering.
Speaker: You'd be surprised what you have to hide.
Speaker: Everyone has skeletons.
