I just feel like this gesture is symbolic at best.
Governments tend to take incremental measures when trying to get compliance from foreign actors. If you start with the “nuclear option”, you don’t have anywhere to escalate to if that doesn’t get the desired result, or if it causes some other unexpected negative results.
I’m in agreement with you that I don’t want the government to be fiddling with the pipes of the internet like that.
They could restrict Canadian ad buying, merchandise purchases via credit card, and restrict app store use, and that would do something.
I just feel like this gesture is symbolic at best. We haven’t done anything about the security concerns.
We should be building a domestic tech industry so we don’t see all the value extracted elsewhere.
Governments tend to take incremental measures when trying to get compliance from foreign actors. If you start with the “nuclear option”, you don’t have anywhere to escalate to if that doesn’t get the desired result, or if it causes some other unexpected negative results.