TikTok Offered US Government A "Kill Switch" To Dodge Ban - ...

A "mischief managed" option from the social media app was offered back in 2022. It is coming to light that Bytedance, the parent company of the popular social media app TiKTok, had offered the US government the ability to control the platform in the form of a "kill switch". That options would have operated exactly as its name implies: the ability to shut down the platform, should the US determine that some form of hanky-panky was happening with the app. The disclosure of such an offer comes as ByteDance and TikTok enter into their legal battle with the US government, after the Senate passed the bill, ordering the social media platform to sell its business in the country, or face an outright ban altogether. The offer of a kill switch was made back in 2022, and included provisions such as properly funding data protection units and ensuring that parent company ByteDance did not have acce...