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.
this revelation has laid bare that the ban is solely meant to diminish both chinese influence and access to viewpoints that oppose isreali/american hegemony; but i wonder if it will make any difference considering the federal courts’ tendencies of yielding to police & federal security agencies’ policies no matter how absurd they are.