专题36 TikTok CEO周受资受到美国众议院质询-2023年高考英语外刊阅读及模拟强化训练

TikTok CEO Faces Intense Questioning from House Committee amid Growing Calls for Ban TikTok CEO周受资受到美国众议院质询 文章选自《CBS新闻网》 主题语境：人与社会 子语境：政治经济 原文出处：CBS News 语篇类型：新闻报道 关键词：CEO；government；ban；committee 篇章导读：周四，TikTok首席执行官面临众议院议员长达数小时的激烈质询，这是一次罕见的两党谴责，反映出国会山因其与中国的关系和用户数据处理而禁止该应用进入美国的势头越来越大。 原汁原味外刊阅读及模拟强化训练 TikTok's chief executive faced hours of intense questioning from House lawmakers on Thursday in a rare bipartisan rebuke that reflected growing momentum on Capitol Hill to ban the app from the U.S. over its ties to China and handling of user data. In testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, CEO Shou Zi Chew struggled to reassure lawmakers that the massively popular social video app doesn't pose a risk to its 150 million users nor share user data with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). But he admitted that TikTok had collected location data on U.S. users in the past, and said some historical data is still stored in servers that could be accessed by engineers from ByteDance, its parent company based in China. Members of both parties spent hours denouncing TikTok's data collection practices and painting it as a tool used by the Chinese government to track and spy on Americans. Before lawmakers even began their questioning, GOP Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, the committee's chair, said they "do not trust that TikTok will ever embrace American values." "TikTok has repeatedly chosen a path for more control, more surveillance and more manipulation. Your platform should be banned," she said. "That is 150 million Americans that CCP can collect sensitive information on, and control what we ultimately see, hear and believe." GOP Rep. Kat Cammack of Florida played a video that threatened violence against the committee and had remained on the platform for more than a month, despite community guidelines barring violence or threats. "You damn well know that you cannot protect the data and secur