Wednesday 27 July 2022 10:15 PM Joe Rogan blasts TikTok over 'crazy' privacy terms and warns that 'China will ... trends now

Joe Rogan blasted China-owned TikTok over it's 'crazy' terms of service, alleging the platform serves as a way for communist Beijing to harvest users' private data.

Rogan expressed his concerns Tuesday on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, alleging the popular social media site can easily gain access to 'all the things you have filed away on your phone.'

He also accused Bytedance, the app's parent company, of monitoring users' keystrokes and knowing 'every f***ing thing you type.'

Rogan's remarks come as mothers on TikTok are removing pictures of their children after raising concerns about the amount of videos of the youngsters that are being saved by potential pedophiles online.

Earlier this month, TikTok confirmed its China-based employees can access U.S. user data through robust cybersecurity controls and authorization approval protocols.

U.S. government officials have believed TikTok 'is spying' on Americans for quite some time and are urging Apple and Google to remove the platform 'from their app stores for its pattern of surreptitious data practices.'

'I read TikTok's terms of service, I went down a TikTok rabbit hole yesterday…This is so crazy,' Rogan told his podcast guest, comedian Theo Von, Tuesday.

'Is it good or bad?' Von asked, to which Rogan exclaimed: 'Bad!'

'Listen to this, this is from TikTok's privacy policy,' Rogan read. 'It said, "We collect certain information about the device you use to access the platform, such as your IP address, user region." This is really crazy.' 

The podcaster alleged that TikTok created its app just so the Chinese government can spy on people across the globe. 

'It's insane… Do you think they created TikTok just on purpose to have all that?' Von questioned. 

'100 percent,' Rogan responded. 'I think they saw that people are addicted to social media and created the most addictive version of social media - which is TikTok. It's the best at sucking people in.'

'Just tell me how it ends man,' Von said.

'It ends with China having all of your data,' argued Rogan. 'User agent, mobile carrier, time zone settings, identifiers for advertising purpose, model of your device, the device system, network type, device IDs, your screen resolution and operating system, app and file names and types.'

'So all your apps and all your file names, all the things you have filed away on your phone, they have access to that.' 

'File names and types, keystroke patterns or rhythms. So they're monitoring your keystrokes, which means they know every f***ing thing you type.

Rogan, reading the app's terms and conditions, continued: 'Battery state, audio settings and connected audio devices, where you log in from multiple devices, we will be able to use your profile information to identify your activity across devices. 

'We may also associate you with information collected from devices other than those you use to log into the platform.'

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Rogan also argued that controlling data is nothing unusual for China, citing the country's Central Bank Digital Currency. 

'What's going on in China, I don't know if you've seen this, but they pulled tanks in front of banks to stop people from f***ing rioting because they just took all their money,' Rogan told Von.

'They have shut down people's accounts and they're doing a social credit score system and they have digital currency.' 

He then accused the country of weaponizing its digital currency to control citizens. 

'If you see what's going on over there, with the digital currency, what they have is the ability to tell you, you can't buy gas,' he explained.

'Like, "Hey Theo, we don't like the way you're living your life, so you're not going to be able to buy a plane ticket,"' Rogan said. 

'China's just dumb, man,' Von responded. 'It has cool people and I like some of the food but I don't like the way they're doing it all.'

Von then questioned: 'Do you think the people there even know what freedom is anymore? Or do you think they're just so brainwashed?'

'They've never had freedom like we have, so no,' Rogan stated. 'They weren't even capitalist for a long time. It was a communist country and then they realized "you know what, in order to compete, we gotta loosen this up a little bit and let some people get greedy and make a s**t load of money."

The podcaster then argued the Chinese government currently utilizes a

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