https://youtu.be/T9SKSTby3l8 here’s a tangentially related video on the “soft censorship” side of things

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance and the wikipedia pages for TikTok and it’s parent company, TL’DR is that It’s a Chinese tech company and companies are legally obligated to hand over their data (and not just implicitly like in the US).