If you heard anything about that hearing, it was likely this. Rep #BuddyCarter, #Republican of #Georgia, demanded to know whether Tiktok used "the phone’s camera to determine whether the content that elicits a pupil dilation should be amplified by the algorithm?"

https://www.c-span.org/video/?526609-1/tiktok-ceo-testifies-house-energy-commerce-committee-hearing

Chew replied, "We do not collect body, face or voice data to identify our users. We do not." Carter pressed him, asking "How do you determine what age they are then?"

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The ultra-#cringe digital #phrenology back-and-forth between Rep #BuddyCarter and #TikTok's #ShouChew:

https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-make-a-child-safe-tiktok-be08fbf94b0d

#PupillaryDilation

Rep buddy carter #GA is so stupid. #tikTok #buddycarter