Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
by bryan_w on Thursday November 07, 2024 @02:35AM
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> If Canadians are still able to use and post on Tiktok I'm not sure there is a speech/censorship issue here. Maybe Tiktok Canada was harboring spies or something,
If tiktok is allowed to do business in the country, then they can buy allegiance via the creator fund which makes it harder to get citizens to realize (and leave it) once they start deploying active measures.
Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
by NooneAtAll3 on Thursday November 07, 2024 @06:53AM
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> I feel like this muddies the issue.
"instead of focusing on China, we should limit the issue as a whole"
"It is not about the data. It’s about a foreign government controlling the algorithm that decides what millions of people see"
"it's not only China - we do it to ourselves to. Instead of focusing on China, we should limit the issue as a whole"
"this muddies the issue"
you know what? instead of focusing on China, we should limit the issue as a whole
Specifically what happened in Canada is:
* A national security review found Tiktok's operations in Canada to be a risk to national security
* Tiktok's operations in Canada are being closed down but Canadians are still able to use and post on Tiktok
* This type of review is pretty opaque by nature so more details are probably unavailable at this stage
If Canadians are still able to use and post on Tiktok I'm not sure there is a speech/censorship issue here. Maybe Tiktok Canada was harboring spies or something, or maybe this is a roundabout way to push Tiktok out of the country later, but I don't think we have any solid public info.