I'm vaguely aware of it, possibly as a result of the Facebook fiasco right?
These laws have been in work since over two years, so I doubt Facebook was a huge factor in it, but the scandal is just "lucky coincidence".
their ToS allows for them to do the things I fear above.
I highly assume that, when promoting such a platform, they didn't have countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia or PR China in mind, when they wrote these ToS.
A simple change to "illegal under US or European law" would definitely help.
Agreed!