Amid increasing concerns over national security threats and data privacy breaches, TikTok CEO, Shou Zi Chew, was grilled by members of both parties at a recent House Committee for Energy and Commerce hearing. While government officials around the world have banned the official use of the app and surveillance worries about ByteDance's cooperation with the Chinese government abound, no country has yet to make moves to ban the app entirely. In response to potential talk of a sweeping ban on TikTok, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the social media platform to voice her concerns. The New York representative called such a move an unprecedented one and pointed out that the US has no significant privacy protection laws on the books. While sympathetic to concerns surrounding TikTok, the outspoken Democrat argued that the solution should be to actually protect private data and address the issue, rather than outright bans. In light of this move, frustrated creators on TikTok poked fun at Congress members' grasp of tech knowledge, less than impressed by the combative and confused tone of the hearing.