Democratic Congressman and Ohio State Senate candidate Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) continues to ask his voters to follow him on communist China’s TikTok, despite the House of Representatives General Administration’s security warnings and encouragement of “hard measures against China.” Message in the Ohio State Senate campaign.
Running for the Senate against Representative Republican JD Vance, Ryan was an early supporter of TikTok in the House of Representatives and has one of the biggest followers of any Congressman. Despite the security warnings, he continues to advertise his account to voters on his official Congressional Twitter account.
Tim Ryan supports TikTok (screenshot)
By politicsOn Tuesday, the House of Representatives General Administration sent a two-page memo to House staff warning against downloading or using TikTok due to security and privacy concerns.
TikTok Inc. CEO Shuzi Chu during an interview for an episode of The David Rubinstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations at the TikTok office in New York City on Thursday, February 17, 2022. ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok . Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. became the leading contender for social media dominance. Photographer: Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg
The memo warned members of Congress against downloading the app and highlighted the publicly stated data collection policy.
From the note:
TikTok’s policy states that it automatically collects information about users’ devices, including location data based on your SIM card, IP addresses, and GPS, your use of TikTok itself, and any content you create or upload, and data you send in its app. messages, metadata from your downloaded content, cookies, app and file names on your device, battery status, and even your keystroke pattern and rhythm, among other things.
Ryan continues to use and promote TikTok in his official government account, while delivering a tough message to China in his Ohio Senate campaign.
This is our war against China.
China outnumbers us left and right and it’s time to fight. We all need to step in, and that starts with investing in Ohio’s workforce.
We will not back down from this struggle. Never bet against Ohio. pic.twitter.com/TVa2qPiQOy
— Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) 29 March 2022
“China is tearing us apart left and right and now is the time to fight,” the rep said. Ryan is in an ad.
While the Ohio congressman continues to support TikTok, the anti-China ad is the first campaign TV spot to feature Ryan’s stance on China as the main subject of the Senate study.
Breitbart News reached out to Congressman Ryan’s office for comment.
Source: Breitbart
