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TikTok is very different in China than it is in the US or for that matter, the rest of the world - this is INTENTIONAL.

BytDance, who own both TikTok and Douyin (China’s version of TikTok), offers a different version of the social media app that is unavailable to the rest of the world, especially for children. They ship an addictive, opium version oversea and have a sanitized, sweeter version for Chinese consumption.

In China kids, if they're under 14 years old, will see science experiments they can do at home, museum exhibits, patriotism videos and educational and animal videos.

Most adult fare is about beauty and shopping, not too different than the US, but is far more tightly controlled.

China recognized years ago that it's easy to influence a child's development by getting in really early - nice patriots at home and brain dead, shopping addicted screen junkies overseas.

Enemy weakened = job done.

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