But reading a little bit further into the article:
The government said it does not intend to block Canadians’ access to the app itself or curtail their ability to create new content, stating the use of a social media application is a “personal choice.”
Oh! No!
In other words, things are just exactly as they were before…
I don’t understand the logic behind this move - is this only PR from the Gov’t intended to quiet down worried Canadian citizen?
This is to remove tiktok from having a Canadian corporate registration. It’s now strictly a foreign entity and using foreign servers/resources. That will allow the Canadian government more “investigative leeway” since they are fully a foreign entity (e.g. the US CIA is not supposed to spy on US citizens or corporations; that’s for the FBI). The use of tiktok has already been banned on Canadian government devices (early 2023).
I see.
I knew about the ban for Gov’t personnel. U.S. has done that too (Canada followed after)
But this more recent move does not in any way impede TikTok’s mission, which is not - contrary to Google - to harvest data for commercial use, but to feed the Chinese State with users’ data for future use.