> any speech being made on TikTok can instead be made on other platforms That wholly depends on what are the other platforms. Meta's platforms for example are

> any speech being made on TikTok can instead be made on other platforms That wholly depends on what are the other platforms. Meta's platforms for example are pretty heavy handed in their censorship: https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-instagram-and https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/... And Youtube is not that much better. To be fair, some of the same voices that get censored on US platforms are also getting censored on TikTok (though I currently cannot find the posts or articles that highlighted the issue)