It's not banning media from a country though, it's banning an app that is country run and can select specific media to show you.
Party is inextricably linked to any large commercial or corporate entity, by law but also culture.
Several media outlets did a dive on the connections the CCP has into TikTok.
Their security auditors implied that they have backdoors.
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
It is quite unnecessary to hear you call everyone you disagree with uneducated or similar.