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paxys | on: Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
If there are actual "national security concerns", they should rule that TikTok data of Canadian citizens needs to be stored within Canadian borders and can only be accessed by Canadian employees. This ban (removing the company's presence from the country while keeping the app active) ensures the exact opposite.
gberger | parent | next
Canadian citizens can still be brainwashed even if their data is stored within Canada.
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cpymchn | parent | next
Can anyone confirm the following?

I remember when Trump had Canada re-ratify Nafta that Canada had to waive the right to require Canadian data stay in Canada.

I know Canada signed the agreement but I am not sure if that requirement was ever put in legislation or whether the requirement was universal or just for US-based companies.

aaomidi | parent
They're angry that TikTok made people aware of the atrocities their governments are supporting across the world.

This has also been the catalyst behind the ban of TikTok in the US.

JumpCrisscross | root | parent | next
> This has also been the catalyst behind the ban of TikTok in the US

No it hasn’t. The war in Gaza is a foreign policy issue, which means most Americans tuned out from the start, and one that was a top issue for a very, very narrow slice of the electorate.

The sad truth is we’re aware of atrocities; we simply aren’t too bothered by them. (If you’re honest about yourself, you aren’t either. Nobody sane could be. There are too many of them, and they’re all burning furiously and it has been this was for a long time.) TikTok is about China, not the Middle East.

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