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It's way worse. They don't ban you and they don't delete your content. TikTok ads don't pay enough that demonetization is a concern either.
The algorithm just silently (!) deranks your content. They don't have guidelines, they don't have feedback, they will never communicate on what is and is not okay to post about. You'll just say "Fuck ICE" in a video once and notice it is doing suspiciously worse than the rest, but then again, you're never quite sure why some of your videos "make it" and some don't. So maybe you're being paranoid? You can't tell.
So on top of the very real algorithmic censorship from these platforms, you've got very frequent bouts of mass psychosis where everyone self-censors for no other reason that other people are doing it and they don't want to risk it. Is the word "dead" de-ranked? Quite likely not even, but who's to say, and it doesn't cost anything to farm a little engagement in the comments by self-censoring...
Isn't the future bright?