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TikTok confirms it offered US government a 'kill switch'
The platform made the disclosure as part of its legal challenge against a law forcing its sale in the US.
It disclosed the "kill switch" offer, which it made in 2022, as it began its legal fight against legislation that will ban the app in America unless Chinese parent company ByteDance sells it. "This law is a radical departure from this country’s tradition of championing an open Internet, and sets a dangerous precedent allowing the political branches to target a disfavored speech platform and force it to sell or be shut down," they argued in their legal submission. In a letter - first reported by the Washington Post- and addressed to the US Department of Justice TikTok's lawyer alleges that the government "ceased any substantive negotiations" after the proposal of the new rules.
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