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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by PittleyDunkin on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:08PM (#42073298)
Ok, but none of the domestic interests are (theoretically) controlled by the government and yet all are (evidently) at least as malicious.

I suppose this would be easier to rationalize if domestic interests were democratically controllable.... but they're not. And they certainly aren't by canadians, which makes this action doubly confusing.

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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by prawn on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:11PM (#42073320)
People throughout this thread seem to disagree with your first point.
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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by PittleyDunkin on Thursday November 07, 2024 @12:20AM (#42073642)
Hence the "(theoretically)" hedge. The theory for how control is maintained has been well-established for at least three decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

Nonetheless, this underlines the hypocrisy of punishing TikTok but not western corporations. By any standard (except for foreign control, which is of dubious merit when domestic control is equally harmful) Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc are equally of deserving of restriction as TikTok is.

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