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2024-02-01 23:30:08 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 05D4B3B269C4465A79A9BB6C19B61DFB225F47363DC58FE9CFE382C67BC283FF
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Senator Cotton is clearly referring to the fact that TikTok is owned by the Chinese Company ByteDance. The People's Republic of China is widely seen as an oppressive or even totalitarian dictatorship where a company like ByteDance could never be fully independent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2023/country-chapters/china
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