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Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada

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410 points empressplay | 2 comments | 06 Nov 24 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.564s | source
1. seaourfreed ◴[06 Nov 24 23:42 UTC] No.42071359[source]▶
The CIA controls TikTok's censorship. Trudeau is doing this since Trump may change the US gov's censorship to no longer push a left agenda. Then political right Canadians that get censored in 2024 won't get censored in 2025 and beyond.

Therefore, surprise, surprise, Trudeau censors it now the day after the US election.

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2. hluska ◴[07 Nov 24 00:01 UTC] No.42071543[source]▶
There is no censorship - the application is still available in Canada. The order is to close offices in Vancouver and Toronto.

In May of this year, the Canadian government ordered two drone detection companies (Pegauni and Bluvec) to shut down using almost the exact same wording.

For comparison (this is actually quite interesting), here is the ByteDance release:

https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-develop...

And here is the Bluvec/Pegauni release:

https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-develop...

So, there’s no censorship but the releases are extremely similar to drone detection companies.