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410 points empressplay | 5 comments | 06 Nov 24 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.628s | source

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

1. outside1234 ◴[06 Nov 24 23:25 UTC] No.42071166[source]▶

What is the strategy here? Why does banning ByteDance from having offices in Canada do anything?

Could it be the start of a series of legislation to make it impossible to operate the app which would be more palatable to the public than a ban?

1: Ban presence in the country

2: Add data provision requirements that personal information be stored in the country.

3: TikTok can’t meet requirements? Well that’s on them, guess they can’t operate here.

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3. alephnerd ◴[06 Nov 24 23:37 UTC] No.42071283[source]▶

> What is the strategy here

1. Show the current government is doing something after the CSE said the Canadian government has been breached by China's MSS [0]

2. A response to China for breaching Canada's systems.

3. A way to get a quick win to make bipartisan China hawks across the border in the US happy.

4. dylan604 ◴[06 Nov 24 23:48 UTC] No.42071418[source]▶

What if ByteDance operating outside of Canada stores the data in ca-central-1?

5. ◴[07 Nov 24 00:43 UTC] No.42071913[source]▶

Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada