{"id":106692,"date":"2024-06-21T22:15:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T22:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/21\/tiktok-say-they-offered-the-us-government-a-kill-switch-offer\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T22:15:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T22:15:27","slug":"tiktok-say-they-offered-the-us-government-a-kill-switch-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/21\/tiktok-say-they-offered-the-us-government-a-kill-switch-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiktok say they offered the US Government a &#8216;Kill Switch&#8217; offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TikTok confirms US &#8216;kill switch&#8217; offer <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xC91B564FQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/xC91B564FQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/1804234598416622074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Tiktok says it offered the US government the option to have the power to shut down the platform in order to address security concerns<br \/>&#8211; It made the offer in 2022 but disclosed it as it attempts to fight the ban Joe Biden signed a few months ago forcing ByteDance to dispense US assets or face a ban<br \/>&#8211; The ban was signed into law after concerns that data belonging to its 170 million US users could be passed to the Chinese government<br \/>&#8211; Tiktok denies it shares any US users date with the Chinese government<br \/>&#8211; <i>TikTok says the mechanism would have allowed the government the &#8220;explicit authority to suspend the platform in the United States at the US government&#8217;s sole discretion&#8221; if it did not follow certain rules.<\/i><br \/>&#8211; Tiktok says the US government &#8216;ceased any substantive negotiations&#8217; and ignored any requests for meetings<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/1804234598416622074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/128660722.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok confirms US &#8216;kill switch&#8217; offer https:\/\/t.co\/xC91B564FQ \u2014 BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 21, 2024 &#8211; Tiktok says it offered the US government the option to have the power to shut down the platform in order to address security concerns&#8211; It made the offer in 2022 but disclosed it as it attempts to fight the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-106692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}