That TikTok hearing was pretty messed up, right?

Shou Zi Chew is seated for a hearing. Portraits of American political figures hang on the wall behind him. Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge

Yesterday continued Congress’s recent history of calling tech executives into a hearing to berate them about their excessive collection of users’ private data for financial means. But where Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai suffered through the hearings only to face little to no repercussions for their potentially egregious collection of data and anti-competitive practices, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was met with something far more defined — and the users of his platform immediately picked up on it.

“Your platform should be banned,” was on...

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