I’m not fully aware of Chinese and Turkish cases to comment on authorities there, but in case of Russia, some USA based social networks are banned not because t

I’m not fully aware of Chinese and Turkish cases to comment on authorities there, but in case of Russia, some USA based social networks are banned not because they’re spreading the “truth and freedom”, but because when Russia implemented pretty much word to word laws as in EU about necessity to store personal data of Russian citizens of such networks inside Russia, the answer was basically “fuck you”. More of it, those networks were caught in suppressing one point of view but amplifying another, that suited interest of USA government in Russia. USA based social networks are for many years a propaganda tool and their hunt for Tiktok and other foreign services is just a clear example of censorship and intention to dominate social media to spread USA narratives and suppress any opposing voices. Btw, right now we have a very good example in Georgia, where their parlament tried to implement a word for word copy of the law about foreign agents they got from USA or a softened version, and both USA and EU demanded this law to be rejected. And government there just wanted to let their citizens know what mass media or public figures are funded by foreign governments and NGO’s.