[cynicalsecurity]

You shouldn't care what China or Russia say. The first amendment works only for American citizens, not for foreign subversion agents.

[dredmorbius]

It's more nuanced than that.

Foreign nationals have at least some First Amendment rights in the US. Foreign agents or countries may have restrictions on some other grounds.

<https://www.freedomforum.org/non-citizens-protected-first-am...>

<https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/aliens/>

TikTok tends toward foreign country / agent as I read it.