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strongpigeon ◴[06 Nov 24 23:21 UTC] No.42071124[source]▶

>>42070946 (OP) #

To be clear, they're not banning the app, they're banning ByteDance from having offices in Canada

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1. throw310822 ◴[06 Nov 24 23:24 UTC] No.42071154[source]▶

>>42071124 #

But what's the point? It's more common for a government to force companies to have an office in the country to exercise political or legal control (see for example recent news about Twitter's Brazil office). Why banning them from having one?

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