Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada

Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by lazystar on Thursday November 07, 2024 @12:54AM (#42073820)

a non-zero amount of censorship is unavoidable in a social media platform. when nation state A is in control of the censorship of social media platform Z, and designs the censorship of that platform to intentionally hurt nation state B by causing division amongst the citizens of nation state B, then nation state B has every right to ban social media platform Z.

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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by RobotToaster on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:57AM (#42074190)

So if the censorship on Facebook is designed to hurt China, they have every right to ban facebook?

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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by sham1 on Thursday November 07, 2024 @03:26AM (#42074741)

I mean, China has banned Facebook. It may or may not be due to that stated reason, but it's nevertheless banned.

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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by lazystar on Thursday November 07, 2024 @07:12AM (#42075958)

yes, of course

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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by troyvit on Thursday November 07, 2024 @11:24AM (#42078059)

Apparently they do, so yes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...

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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by insane_dreamer on Thursday November 07, 2024 @02:44PM (#42080144)

But that’s not why they banned it. They banned it because FB refused to submit to the CPC’s censorship.

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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by logicchains on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:12AM (#42073911)

>designs the censorship of that platform to intentionally hurt nation state B by causing division amongst the citizens of nation state B

If the division is a result of the platform exposing people in that nation to information that they previously didn't have access to, due to the government censoring it, then it's absolutely a good thing for the people of the nation. The government of the nation state can get fucked when its interests go against the interests of its people. A divided people is a much better thing than a people united by ignorance and belief in falsehood.

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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by lazystar on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:20AM (#42073960)

but thats not what nation state A is doing - differing amounts of information is selectively made available to different groups of citizens in nation state B, purely to sow discord when those two groups of citizens interact.

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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by aprilthird2021 on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:29PM (#42079397)

But it doesn't matter what the intent is. The intent behind many types of publishing and media can be malicious. The ability to publish that media and the ability of Americans to consume that media is protected free speech

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