If Larry Ellison overtly censors TikTok, teenagers will leave.

Do I understand that the strategy here is soft power so that teenagers get approved content via the algorithm in the hope that they don't notice? That is a pretty big gamble.

So they are dumping part of that risk on the gulf monarchies like with Twitter. I bet China is already working on a TikTok replacement.

No they wont, teens everywhere still use IG, and YT.