Very strange move. As someone else noted, they claim they don’t want data of their people in Chinese hands yet if it’s to still operate for Canadian users it would have to do so from outside their shores and entirely out of their legal jurisdiction, possibly from China.

I have to wonder if it’s a ban in all but name, that is they expect them to shut down the app for Canadians but want to say “look we didn’t prevent them from keeping the app running, we just shut down their division here, don’t blame us, blame them” as to kind of evade responsibility for it.

Otherwise I have to wonder if they think that preventing say ad revenue will get them to close up shop on their own or something. It’s just bizarre.