Canada has put TikTok under a microscope and didn’t like what it found. The federal government ordered the social media company to shut down its Canadian operations, but the app will continue to function in Canada.
Since Canadian creators receive little support from the company itself, this shouldn’t impact creators that much.
However, TikTok plans to sue the Canadian government, according to CBC News, so I could see a world in which the company stops the Canadian version of the app from getting updates or squishes Canadian views to help put pressure on the government to repeal the ban. But that’s just speculation, nothing has happened yet.
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne told CBC News that he wasn’t able to share much, but the shutdown was based on “information and evidence that surfaced during a national security review, and the advice of Canada’s security and intelligence community.”
The U.S. has also previously flagged TikTok as potentially dangerous, claimed that its parent company, ByteDance, is beholden to the Chinese government, and raised concerns that foreign powers could obtain user data. Those interested in learning more about the ongoing U.S. effort to ban TikTok should read this timeline from The Verge.
Source: CBC News
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