MARIA: THE WHITE HOUSE TELLING
FOX BUSINESS IT IS FINALLY
COMMITTED TO TAKE ON TIKTOK.
WATCHES.
>> THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS
FOCUSED ON CHALLENGE OF CERTAIN
COUNTRIES INCLUDING CHINA
SEEKING TO LEVERAGE DIGITAL
TECHNOLOGY IN AMERICA’S DATA IN
WAYS THAT PRESENT UNACCEPTABLE
NATIONAL SECURITY RISK.
MARIA: MORE STATES TAKING
MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS,
TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT
DIRECTING STATE AGENCIES TO BAN
TIKTOK ON GOVERNMENT ISSUED
DEVICES.
INDIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL IS
SUING THE COMPANY ALLEGEDLY
MISLEADING USERS OVER THE
CHINESE GOVERNMENT WHILE
EXPOSING MATURE CONTENT TO
MINORS ACCORDING TO THE AGN
INDIANA JOINING THE CONVERSATION
IS FOX BUSINESS DAGEN MCDOWELL
STRATEGIC WEALTH PARTNER MARK
TEPPER AND FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTE
AUTHOR OF COME ON MAN, JOE
CONCHA, GREAT TO SEE EVERYBODY
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
TIKTOK A BIG STORY.
>> I DO BELIEVE THE HORSE IS OUT
OF THE BARN IN TERMS OF THE
AMOUNT OF DATA THAT TIKTOK BY
EXTENSION THE CHINESE COMMUNIST
PARTY HAS BEEN ABLE TO COLLECT
ON AMERICAN FOREIGN WIDE EVEN
VERY YOUNG CHILDREN IN THIS
COUNTRY.
BUT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
INDIANA THESE ARE DUAL LAWSUITS.
ONE OF THEM, THEY’RE BOTH BASED
ON CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS.
ONE OF THEM IS A COURSE ALLEGES
CHINA HAS THE ABILITY TO USE
TIKTOK’S DATA TO SERVE THE
COUNTRY’S NATIONAL SECURITY AND
ECONOMIC INTEREST, I’M QUOTING
SOME OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
ARTICLE ON THIS.
THE OTHER IS FOCUSED ON CHILDREN
AND IT’S VERY INTERESTING, THE
LAWSUIT SAYS THIS IN THE
COMPLAINT FOCUSED ON KIDS THE
STATE ALLEGES THE TIKTOK APP IS
MISREPRESENTING IS APPROPRIATE
FOR USERS AGES 12 OR OLDER.
FOR EXAMPLE YET OF A 12 PLUS
RATING ON APPLE’S APP STORE AND
TIKTOK MUST REPRESENT REFERENCES
TO MATURE THEMES, ALCOHOL, DRUGS
AND SEXUAL CONTENT ARE
INFREQUENT AND MILD ACCORDING TO
THE LAWSUIT.
THEY SHOULD NOT REQUIRE A
LAWSUIT FROM AN ATTORNEY GENERAL
APPLE AND BY EXTENSION GOOGLE
AND THE GOOGLE APP STORE THEY
SHOULD BE ON TOP OF THIS AND
JAMES FREEMAN WROTE ABOUT THIS
SEVERAL DAYS AGO THIS IS AN
OPPORTUNITY FOR APPLE AND GOOGLE
TO LEAD.
INVESTIGATE WHAT IS ON THIS APP
THEY COULD EASILY REMOVE IT IF
THE CONTENT IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR
KIDS OR RESTRICT WHO WAS ABLE TO
DOWNLOAD IT AND QUITE FRANKLY
LET’S HAVE THE PARENTS LEAD ON
THIS.
THAT WOULD LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF
INDIVIDUALS AND KIDS IN CHILDREN
AND TEENAGERS AND LIMIT THE
AMOUNT OF DATA THAT CHINA IS
COLLECTING ON AMERICA’S.
>> THIS IS A NATIONAL SECURITY
THREAT WE KNOW THIS FOR SURE AND
WHAT WE HEAR FROM THE SOCIAL
MEDIA COMPANIES, TWITTER, ELON
MUSK THERE SUPPOSED TO BE THE
BAD GUYS ALL WE ARE HEARING IS
TWITTER TO GET REMOVED FROM THE
APP STORE, NOT EVEN A COMMENT
FROM APPLE IN THE NATIONAL
SECURITY ISSUES AROUND TIKTOK.
>> THAT’S WHERE APPLE CAN LEAD
THEIR FOCUS ON THE WRONG COMPANY
TO YOUR POINT, TO NATIONAL
SECURITY RISK.
>> IS ABOUT THE BENJAMIN’S
$74 BILLION APPLE DERIVED FROM
CHINA IN THE LAST FISCAL YEAR.
>> AMAZING, PARENTS NEED TO LEAD
ON THIS, AS A PARENT AND RAISING
MY HAND MY DAUGHTER ASKED ME
YESTERDAY WHEN DO I GET A PHONE,
SHE’S NINE YEARS OLD AND I SAID
WHEN YOU’RE ALLOWED TO DATE
AROUND THE TIME WHEN YOU GET A
DRIVERS LICENSE, YOU CAN SEE THE
IMPACT THIS HAS ON CHILDREN.
I’M GOING TO SHIELD HER IN MY
YOUNG SON AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.
MARIA: DO YOU DO THAT WITH YOUR
KIDS? >> I HAVE IT, I SHOULD I HAVEN’T
>> I HAVE IT, I SHOULD I HAVEN’T
YET, I’M TERRIBLE.
MARIA: THEY USE IT?
>> THEY USE IT I HAVEN’T
DOWNLOADED I’M A LITTLE
CONCERNED ABOUT THE CCP HAVING
DIRECT ACCESS TO OUR YOUTH AND
THINGS LIKE THAT.
ALL I REALLY HAVE TO SAY IS
KUDOS TO THE FIVE GOVERNORS FOR
FINALLY STANDING UP AND DOING SOMETHING IN OUR FEDERAL
SOMETHING IN OUR FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT WON’T DO.
IF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL
GO TOE TO TOE TO THE CCP AND
TIKTOK SOMEBODY’S GOTTA DO IT.
>> THE AG HAS BEEN THE LAST LINE
OF DEFENSE ON ALL THE POLICY.
>> BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE
AS INDIVIDUALS IN THIS COUNTRY,
IT SHOULD START THEIR AND THAT
MEANS PARENTS THAT DON’T RELY ON
ON.
I’M WALKING THE TALK I DON’T
HAVE TIKTOK, I DON’T USE TIKTOK,
I’VE NEVER DOWNLOADED THE APP
FOR THIS VERY REASON.
IT’S GREAT TODDLER KITA IS BE
MORE AGGRESSIVE THAN OTHER STATE
ATTORNEY GENERAL ON THIS BUT
EVERYBODY NEEDS TO REASSESS HOW
THEY USE TIKTOK AND WHAT TIKTOK
IS DOING.
MARIA: PRESIDENT OBAMA DID
TIKTOK VIDEOS.
>> HIDING UNDER THE TABLE.
>> YOU WOULD THINK THE DIRECTION
COMES FROM THE
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF JOE BIDEN BUT
THE USING TIKTOK ALL THE TIME.
>> WE WOULD RATHER PLAY NICE IN
THE SANDBOX.
>> TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT TIKTOK