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Apparently, social media personalities like MrBeast, an American producer of entertaining stunts, frighten the Kyrgyz government enough that it has decided to restrict children’s Internet access. Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Digital Development is blocking the Chinese-owned social media channel TikTok, justifying it as a move to protect children from pernicious web-borne influences. Kyrgyz mobile operators and Internet providers began restricting access to the application on April 17. As a result, TikTok is largely inaccessible to all users in the Central Asian nation. The ministry’s action occurr…

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