OTTAWA - A new poll indicates 51 per cent of Canadians support banning the social media app TikTok, after a U....

How about we enact meaningful privacy regulations that affect all online services instead?

I hate TikTok as much as the next “old”, but making this about TikTok specifically instead of about the way Platform Capitalism is exploiting all of us lets everyone else off the hook, from giants like Facebook and Google through to ISPs like Bell to automotive OEMs like GM.

Bust all their balls.

Yeah, I support a ban, but it doesn’t go far enough.

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Its to fuck with China. US is the worst when it comes to privacy and they’re concerned about China. I would rather sell my data to Chinese for $$ than US taking it for free.

I’m pretty sure TikTok doesn’t pay you either.

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