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TikTok confirms it offered US government a 'kill switch' (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21171134

TikTok says the mechanism would have allowed the government the "explicit authority to suspend the platform in the United States at the US government's sole discretion" if it did not follow certain rules.

A draft "National Security Agreement", proposed by TikTok in August 2022, would have seen the company having to follow rules such as properly funding its data protection units and making sure that ByteDance did not have access to US users' data.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

That's because the congressmen want to sell the company to their billionaire friends and let them hoard the data, not because they give a rats ass about anything else.