Does it have any algorithmic weight? if you start watching anti-CCP videos will more get served to you? This is a big part of the problem with opaque algorithms, IMO. They can downrank content secretly without outright banning it. I don’t think it’s as bad as op made it out to be, but it does seem like “the only way to win is not to play” situation.

Generally tiktok’s more blatant censorship seems to be regional (so anti-ccp content is blocked on tiktok in china). Russia and Ukraine seem to get served dramatically different war content, etc