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So it was just a little suspicious when information broke that TikTok had taken down the profile of an American teenager selling consciousness about China’s disastrous human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims. TikTok says the 17-yr-previous’s account was disabled not due to that video, however in relation to a TikTok featuring imagery of Osama Bin Laden.