China is banned. TikTok isn't banned. You're conflating those to say that TikTok is banned, but your argument is what applies to China, not TikTok. In the same

China is banned. TikTok isn't banned. You're conflating those to say that TikTok is banned, but your argument is what applies to China, not TikTok. In the same sense, it's not Google that's banned in China. It's free speech. Google just can't operate without it so it decided to exit the market by refusing to allow CCP access to user data and to implement CCP firewalls. You can conflate things to make them sound like the same thing. Words can have subjective and loose meaning. But reality is very complex and very specific and doesn't have any loose meaning. And this is not remotely the same thing.