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Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada

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410 points empressplay | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | 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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imgabe ◴[07 Nov 24 00:03 UTC] No.42071557[source]▶
It is not about the data. It’s about a foreign government controlling the algorithm that decides what millions of people see, and their ability to shape public opinion through that.

Like imagine if China owned CNN and the New York Times and decided what stories they could publish.

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kaliqt ◴[07 Nov 24 00:26 UTC] No.42071772[source]▶
As opposed to the domestic government controlling the algorithm that decides what millions of people see, and their ability to shape public opinion through that.
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Synaesthesia ◴[07 Nov 24 00:53 UTC] No.42072000[source]▶
But what is out there on TikTok that's so dangerous to the state? Dance videos?
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1. kelseyfrog ◴[07 Nov 24 00:59 UTC] No.42072063[source]▶
The clearest way to look at this is through the lens of Althusser's Ideological State Apparatus(ISK). Media is one of the arms of the ISK. It's not necessarily that TikTok is foreign owned, it's that China's dominant ideology is incompatible with the western hegemony. The western ISK sees alternative ideologies as a threat and control over the arm of mass media is a concrete form of that threat. The ISK must have control over dominant forms of media in order to maintain ideological hegemony.