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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by kfajdsl on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:36PM (#42073449)
Well, China has the great firewall, so information flows less freely from the "free world" to the "world of oppression" than the other way around.
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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by nine_k on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:45PM (#42073498)
This is so. But places like Turkyie, Russia, or even Iran have much weaker blocks; same applies to much of the authoritarian African regimes.

Basically, to enforce border controls on the internet, you have to break the internet.

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