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They also ban TikTok -- the Chinese version doesn't push the type of content TikTok does and doesn't mix international user data into the local version. Notably, several other countries with mediocre relationships with China also ban TikTok, for example India.

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People who say this have never used Douyin. It's influencer shilling and funny animal videos.

Maybe that type of content is illegal in China but not it the US?

China makes companies practice self censorship that is heavily based on current cChinese context, they won't tell you what content is illegal, you just better not have content that they deem illegal after the fact. This makes the Douyin model very different from Tiktok in the rest of the world, where illegal content is generally well defined (no nudity, sex...erm, but Douyin-no-no Winnie the pooh is OK).

I think nudity content is not illegal in the West. It is avoided due to self-censorship, but it's the advertisers not the party that content providers fear.

Nudity isn’t illegal in itself, but presenting nudity to minors, or worse, nudity of minors, is very very illegal. It isn’t self censoring Winnie the Pooh at that point, it is a clear rule that everyone has strategies to follow.

There's enough brain rot content on Chinese social media network. That homesome science stuff content is just bs.

You can find enough youtube reaction videos for it.

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