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TikTok听证会上,美国议员问的这些问题真是让人“啼笑皆非”……

来源:融媒体采编平台
作者:世纪君
日期:2023-03-27

当地时间23日,TikTok首席执行官(CEO)周受资出席美国国会众议院能源和商务委员会听证会。路透社称,在听证会上,议员盘问了周受资有关“中国对平台的潜在影响”,“短视频伤害儿童心理健康”等问题,反映出两党对于TikTok在美国影响力的担忧。

US lawmakers on Thursday battered TikTok's CEO about potential Chinese influence over the platform and said its short videos were damaging children's mental health, reflecting bipartisan concerns about the app's power over Americans.
 

路透社:TikTok听证会:CEO周受资被美国议员盘问(grilled)
 

 

*Grill:根据剑桥词典的解释,除了常用的“烧烤”等含义,grill在美式英语中还指“在长时间内问某人很多问题(to ask someone a lot of questions for a long time)”。根据美媒的报道,这场听证会时间超过五个小时,用grill来表达可以说相当准确了。
 

CNN称,对于公众来说是见到周受资的“罕见机会”,因为他很少接受采访。尽管TikTok是美国最受欢迎的软件之一,有超过1.5亿的用户。

It was a rare chance for the public to hear from the Chew, who offers very few interviews. Yet his company’s app is among the most popular in America, with more than 150 million active users.
 

路透社则报道称,周受资大部分时间都在回击有关“TikTok或其母公司字节跳动是中国政府工具”此类的质疑。

Chew spent most of the hearing attempting to push back assertions that TikTok, or its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, are tools of the Chinese government.

 

“我就不信”
 

在数小时的听证会中,美媒对其中几个问题格外关注。
 

CNN报道显示,听证会开始,华盛顿的共和党议员罗杰斯就率先发难,对周受资说:“你的平台应该被禁。” 罗杰斯用非常极端的语言抹黑TikTok是“国外用来监视、操纵美国子孙后代的武器”。

Washington Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, opened Thursday’s hearing by telling Chew: “Your platform should be banned.”
 

周受资则强调TikTok并不在中国运营,其总部位于洛杉矶和新加坡,在美国有超过7000名员工。
 

不过,无论周受资如何强调“TikTok不是中国政府的工具”,议员们都置若罔闻。在周受资发言时,他的回答频频遭到蛮横而无理的打断,许多议员根本没有听取其发言意见的意思。

Much of Chew’s attempts to stress that his company is not an arm of the Chinese government appeared to fall on deaf ears. Numerous members of Congress interrupted the chief executive’s testimony to say they simply don’t believe him.
 

加州的民主党议员埃舒也是这个论调,质疑TikTok对于美国用户数据的保护问题,周受资回答称“没有证据证明是中国政府获得了这些数据,他们也没问过我们,我们也没有提供过。”

In an exchange with California Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo, Chew talked up TikTok’s ongoing efforts to protect US user data and said he has “seen no evidence that the Chinese government has access to that data; they have never asked us, we have not provided it.”
 

埃舒也没有提出证据,但是却说这一回答“荒谬(preposterous)”。在与周受资交锋几个回合后,埃舒说道:“我不相信你为了说服我们,所说所做的任何事。”

“I don’t believe that TikTok — that you have said or done anything to convince us,” Eshoo said.

 

“为啥中国就没有?”
 

TikTok的内容审核机制也备受关注。
 

肯塔基州共和党议员古斯瑞提问,为何在美国的TikTok上会出现涉及毒品的内容,而其在中国的姊妹款App(抖音)上却没有这些东西,称为什么这“在中国可以阻止,但在美国却不能”,“中国和美国有什么不同呢?”
 

对此,周受资只能回答,各国的现实情形不同,并以自己的国家新加坡举例:
 

在新加坡的TikTok上也没有任何非法的毒品内容,因为该国有“十分严格的禁毒法”。

Moderation of content continues to be a key point. Rep. Brett Guthrie, Republican of Kentucky, hammered away at the question of why videos promoting drug use appear on TikTok in America, but not on the app of its sister company in China. Chew responded that TikTok deals with “the reality of the country we are operating in.” He added there was no illegal drug content on TikTok in Singapore because of that company’s “very strict drug laws.”

 

对于相关问题,纽约时报的报道则指出,过去十年来,中国政府对于网络上的有害内容采取了严格措施,违反相关规定的公司将面临重罚。
 

“TikTok接入家庭WiFi吗?
 

听证会上还出现了很多看上去“啼笑皆非”的问题。
 

共和党议员哈德森就问道,“TikTok是否接入家庭WiFi”?

"Mr, Chew, does TikTok access the home wifi network?" Republican Rep. Richard Hudson asked.
 

周受资对此先是一愣,然后回答道:“用户打开WiFi才能连接,抱歉我没懂你的问题”

"Only if the user turns on the wifi," Chew said. "I'm sorry, I may not understand the question."
 

哈德森随后发问,如果TikTok联网了,它是否会通过网络接入其他家庭设备。
 

对此周受资则回答,TikTok不会做超出行业范畴的事情,“我相信这个问题的答案是:不会。”
 

这段对话在网上引发超5万次转发评论 ,不少网友直呼“太尴尬了”,“美国议员能不能先了解一下WiFi的工作原理?”
 

还有人模仿哈德森的句式开启嘲讽模式:
 
 
“CEO先生,当我打开TikTok时,它是否会使用我的手机电池?”
 
 

类似的问题还有不少,美国议员尽管问的五花八门,但是最后都冠以“国家安全”的名义结尾。比如有议员提问TikTok是否收集面部识别等生物信息,为何“追踪眼睛动向”等等。
 

周受资表示,我们不收集用户的身体数据,除非,比如你要用一个假墨镜式的滤镜,我们才会(收集),因为得知道你的眼睛在哪。”
 

US Rep. Buddy Carter asked Chew whether the app tracks pupil dilation as a form of facial recognition to drive algorithms. Chew responded by saying the app does not use body, face or voice data to identify users, and the only face data the app collects is for “filters to have sunglasses on your face.”

 

这些与互联网时代脱节的发问视频也在网络上引发网友群嘲。而议员的发言人在接受采访时却说:议员自己不用TikTok,因为这款软件危害国家安全。

 

在咄咄逼人的问题中,议员们肆意打断周受资的回答,或者干脆只让回答“是或者否”。
 

对此,TikTok的发言人奥博维特表示:
 

“周受资为了听证会做了充分准备,但不幸的是,听证会充满了政治投机哗众取宠,无法看出任何真正的解决方案。”

In a statement after the hearing, TikTok spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter told Axios: "Shou came prepared to answer questions from Congress, but, unfortunately, the day was dominated by political grandstanding that failed to acknowledge the real solutions already underway."

 

综合来源:CNN,路透社,Mashable,纽约时报,CNA

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