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Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada

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747 points empressplay | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | 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. cen4 ◴[07 Nov 24 03:49 UTC] No.42073186[source]▶
Its easy to get the point across to politicians.

Ask them to check how much their own Ad spend is increasing every year.

And ask them to check how much New Content they need to produce everyday. And how much that has increased over the last year.

Basically Politicians, instead of being on the ground dealing with people issues, are turning into Content Factories and Fund raising machines to keep the content factories running.

Human Attention is finite. If its not treated as such, we trap everyone in an Attention Capture arms race to nowhere.

Platform profit, content factories profit, fund raising machines profit - https://www.axios.com/2024/10/31/digital-ad-market-boom-big-...