The New York Democrat started her video by saying: "This is not only my first TikTok, but it is a TikTok about TikTok. Do I believe TikTok should be banned? No."
"Firstofall, I think it's important to discuss how unprecedented of a move this would be. The United States has never before banned a social media company from existence, from operating in our borders," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And this is an app that has over 150 million Americans on it."
"They say because of this egregious amount of data harvesting, we should ban this app. However, that doesn't really address the core of the issue," Ocasio-Cortez said.
这位纽约民主党人指出,像Meta(脸书母公司)这样的大型社交媒体公司也收集了“大量的个人数据(troves of deeply personal data)”。她指出,其本质原因是美国没有“重大数据或隐私保护法(significant data or privacy protection laws)”。
“实际上,美国是世界上仅有的几个没有重要数据或隐私保护成文法律的发达国家之一。”她在视频中说。
“In fact, the United Sates is one of the only developed nations in the world that has no significant data or privacy protection laws on the books.”
The New York Democrat noted that major social media companies like Meta also collect "troves of deeply personal data." She pointed out that the US doesn't have "significant data or privacy protection laws."
The congresswoman also argues that rather than singling out one platform, Congress should create tougher, European-style policies to regulate how social media companies collect and manage data from their users.
"So to me, the solution here is not to ban an individual company — but to actually protect Americans from this kind of egregious data harvesting that companies can do without your significant ability to say no," Ocasio-Cortez said.
“And I can tell you that Congress has not received a classified briefing around the allegations of national security risks regarding TikTok.So why would we be proposing a ban regarding such a significant issue without being clued in on this at all? It just doesn't feel right to me."
“If we want to make a decision as significant as banning TikTok, and we believe — or someone believes — that there is really important information that the public deserves to know about why such a decision would be justified, that information should be shared,” she says in the video.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez joins an exceedingly small group of lawmakers — all of them progressive Democrats — who have broken with their party to support TikTok.
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