Shut it down, yesterday. Build a local clone so that people can get their fix or whatever. China sure as shit doesn’t allow its citizens to cough up their personal information for algorithmic consumption to Twitter et al.
I do wonder if there’s any lobbying going on from Facebook or Google to help bolster their Reels and Shorts products, both of which seem to be garbage and miss the point of TikTok (the two way interaction).
Yes, regular job control is available interactively.
Note that I'm interested in making scripting work better so I've made little to no attempt to ease interactive use (there are plenty of better alternatives for interactive shells).
I tend to use "rlwrap idio" to make editing easier.