"Could be interpreted" could be interpreted to mean anything at all.

The question asked was not about scanning, and a reasonable person would not answer it as if it had.

The follow up clarification specifically was "is it possible then, that it could access other devices on that home wifi network?".

Listen, I'm not American nor on TikTok. I couldn't care less, I just wanted to point out that this is not the best example for weird questions from that whole ordeal.

I thought that was what was meant by the question. Was it not?

I thought it was a brilliant question. Representative Hudson demonstrated understanding of security boundaries between Internet client-server and local peer-to-peer network use. Who is making fun of him for that question?