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China
It's banned in china
So is TikTok... China funds lots of things that are banned there.
TikTok is not banned in china.
Excuse me, TikTok is "unavailable" in China
That's not true either...
tiktok is completely allowed in china
it's called douyin and is the same thing owned by the same company
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-tiktok-banned-in-china/ https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-bytedance-ban-china-india-376f32d78861e14e65ec4bc78e808a0d You can't even get it in Hong Kong anymore via AP
It's owned by the same company and is the same app with a different name...
tiktok just has a different name in china...
It is factually not, it is a version of the app that is separate and goes through the Chinese censors. If they were the same you'd just be able to use the same app.
it is factually just different brand-name.
Everything in china goes through the chinese censors, nobody is saying that china isn't heavily censored, but that's tiktok and it's available in china. Who cares about the name? So many things have different names by country.
It wouldn't even surprise me if China was sponsoring something and still banning it out of habit.