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So it's not the content that I've got a problem with. It's the underlying issues of how much data that app particularly collects about its users, most of whom are children. Not to mention when you install that app on your phone, you grant it access to your entire home network. A lot of people don't realize that, but you do. So therefore, it gets a footprint of every device that's connected to your home network, how long they're connected, what all their IPs are, their GPS coordinates, blah, blah, blah. So they're able to lay out a giant geographical map of just about every citizen in North America and elsewhere around the world. They know where you're to. They know where concentrations of children are. They know where adults that use it at work. They get access to corporate networks as a result. And it doesn't matter about firewalls. If you access it from within inside your company's network, that network's map is automatically sent to ByteDance, i.e. China. And I don't think that's a good idea. Any app that collects that much data. I mean, Google, Apple, they all do it, right? But they're all American companies. When it comes to TikTok, my Google just decided to spout off when I didn't even ask you the question. It just goes to show, oh, maybe it set off when I said the G word. But yeah, I mean, it's just crazy the amount of information that TikTok collects. When you give it access to your photos and videos, it uploads all of those, not just select ones. All of them get saved to their servers. It's a menace of an app. It really is. And don't get me wrong again. Like I said, it's not the content. It's not the short videos. It's not the monetization. It's none of that because lots of other companies do it. But it's just TikTok got to be so popular overnight. The Chinese already have what they wanted to get from it. And they'll use it too. And it's not just, oh, John lives at 334 Evergreen Terrace. It's John lives at 334 Evergreen Terrace. He drives to work. It takes him 10 minutes each day at 8.15 p.m. When he does that, his wife is home alone with two kids. And she leaves 45 minutes later to walk the two kids to school. And then she goes to a pottery class that lasts for 45 minutes. That's the stuff I don't want a foreign national company to be able to get their mitts on. Your every movement, every position, your data, access to any network that you join while you've got that bloody app installed on your phone. It's a security risk.