It’s partially a cargo cult at the moment.

It used to be like that, people did their own captions for TikTok using capcut and corp-censored bad words in the text but still said them aloud.

But now TikTok can caption videos automatically and it WILL show “killed” and “murdered” if the word is said.

So if they wanted to censor something, it’s just a matter of a word filter from the captions