Rep. Robert Garcia
Speaking with MSNBC last month, Garcia said the app “speaks to the next generation,” and is an opportunity for small businesses to thrive. As a consumer himself, Garica is still pretty fresh to the app. Since June 2022, the representative has posted 11 times from his official account and attracted 2,450 followers. Like other lawmakers, Garcia’s content features brief clips of him taking shots at Republicans, clips of him speaking before Congress, and a handful of attempts at jumping on the tail end of meme trends. One of those videos shows Garcia fake paddling a boat through a lake.
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“As someone who is a consumer of TikTok I’ve seen folks build personal brands, start businesses, so I think before we get to a banning approach we need to work on the real privacy concerns that are there,” Garcia said.
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Garica recently told the Associated Press lawmakers might be less likely to demand bans for the app if they actually used it and understood how it works.
“It gets hard to understand if you’re not actually on it,” Garcia said. “And at the end of the day, a lot of TikTok is harmless people dancing and funny videos.”
