I think you might be correct, I tend to see copyright itself as censorious, but copyright on something you have no intent allowing access to seems downright unacceptable.
That's totally fair, I hadn't considered it from that perspective. In my mind politics are things like the tax rate. So a social issue could never be political.
App clips looks like yet another popup nightmare on websites. After the cookies notice and the notifications request I can be asked to switch to app clips.