Social Media in China

China does not ban any social media companies because of their country of origin.

What China does is block all social media that does not comply with Chinese law.

1) China requires data about Chinese people be kept in servers in China.  Facebook and Twitter have refused to do this.  TikTok does this for American users by having servers in Texas ("Project Texas").

2) China requires social media companies to cooperate with Chinese law enforcement.  Facebook and Twitter cooperate with US law enforcement, but they have refused to cooperate with Chinese law enforcement.

After the platforms of US social media companies were used to organize terrorist attacks in Xinjiang in 2009, 200 people died.  Facebook and Twitter refused to cooperate with Chinese investigators.

3) China has certain content restrictions, as in almost every other country, though there is somewhat more restriction in China than in USA.  For example, China does not permit porn.  Facebook and Twitter have refused to cooperate with Chinese content restrictions.

The Chinese domestic version of TikTok, called Douin, enforces these restrictions.  TikTok which is intended for other countries does not.

TikTok has already gone above and beyond US legal requirements, but the US government simply does not want a social media company owned by China, as it cannot be pressured by actors associated with the USA, including Israel, to make editorial decisions those actors want.

(Many Zionists including ADL have been complaining about all the information about Palestine that young people get on TikTok.  And unlike with US social media companies, Israel can't drag the owners of TikTok to Israel to kiss the rock and the ring of Netanyahu.)

It's also pretty clear that US operates it's social media companies as international spyware and for organizing coups and terror.  When the US complains about China doing these things, it is projection.