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Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada

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410 points empressplay | 4 comments | 06 Nov 24 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.54s | source
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not2b ◴[07 Nov 24 00:01 UTC] No.42071538[source]▶
Instead of the laser focus on TikTok as a threat, it would be better for the US and Canada to have real data protection laws that would apply equally to TikTok, Meta, Google, Apple, and X. What the EU has done is far from perfect but it bans the worst practices. The Chinese can buy all of the information they want on Americans and Canadians from ad brokers, who will happily sell them everything they need to track individuals' locations.

Perhaps the way to get anti-regulation politicians on board with this is for someone to do what was done to Robert Bork and legally disclose lots of personal info on members of Congress/Parliament, obtained from data brokers and de-anonymized.

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1. zeroonetwothree ◴[07 Nov 24 00:18 UTC] No.42071688[source]▶
How can the US actually enforce laws against Bytedance? Are they going to allow us to audit their operations?
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2. avazhi ◴[07 Nov 24 00:23 UTC] No.42071735[source]▶
By banning them from operating in the US. The implementation really isn’t complicated - it’s a simple statute outlawing the company on national security grounds, and all the tech companies (viz Apple and Google) will have to abide by it or face huge fines and criminal sanctions.
3. buzer ◴[07 Nov 24 00:32 UTC] No.42071827[source]▶
If US suspects they are breaking the law they can convince judge to sign warrant to get that information or start lawsuit and go through discovery. If they refuse the judge can hold them in contempt of court. I assume next they could just get judgement against them (assuming they are breaking the law) and that could be e.g. require seizing assets and dissolution of the US company.
4. seanmcdirmid ◴[07 Nov 24 01:06 UTC] No.42072117[source]▶
You'd be surprised how many companies or individuals won't exchange money with you if doing so puts them in criminal or civil legal jeopardy. No need for even a Great Firewall.