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Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada

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747 points empressplay | 7 comments | 06 Nov 24 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.835s | source | bottom
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paxys ◴[06 Nov 24 23:38 UTC] No.42071295[source]▶
If there are actual "national security concerns", they should rule that TikTok data of Canadian citizens needs to be stored within Canadian borders and can only be accessed by Canadian employees. This ban (removing the company's presence from the country while keeping the app active) ensures the exact opposite.
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1. gberger ◴[06 Nov 24 23:44 UTC] No.42071381[source]▶
Canadian citizens can still be brainwashed even if their data is stored within Canada.
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2. paxys ◴[06 Nov 24 23:48 UTC] No.42071414[source]▶
So then why aren't they banning the app?
3. hmmokidk ◴[06 Nov 24 23:55 UTC] No.42071485[source]▶
If any app is brainwashing people it's the zombie of twitter. Not tik tok.
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4. TeaBrain ◴[07 Nov 24 00:01 UTC] No.42071534[source]▶
The point is that from a disinformation dissemination perspective, it doesn't matter where the data was stored, but the government could have possibly had more control if the data was stored in Canada. Forcing the data to be removed from Canada doesn't seem to be accomplishing anything positive for the Canadian government or people.
5. wyldberry ◴[07 Nov 24 02:23 UTC] No.42072635[source]▶
If a picture is a thousand words, then surely video is several orders of magnitude more powerful for brainwashing, especially in short form.
6. CrispyKerosene ◴[07 Nov 24 15:02 UTC] No.42077214[source]▶
Oh give it a rest with the nationalist fear mongering. This isn't about 'national security concerns'. That's the smoke and mirrors to get the populist support necessary to ban it. Meta and Google are feeling threatened that their dominance on North America is being tested and they are flexing their lobbying muscles.
7. russli1993 ◴[09 Nov 24 04:13 UTC] No.42092498[source]▶
Brainwashed with what. All I can see is people are brainwashed to believe Chinese ppl bad, Chinese ppl are spies, a tiktok office is an evil spy outpost. The evil commmies from China are going to spread the red scare everywhere. We need to drop the iron curtain now!