Pretending China/Russia/Iran companies are evil while US companies are not because of some preconceived notion is a great way to let that world order crumble.
Would any of those countries let us run a service with the same scale or influence in their borders? (Is there any non state media in those countries).
You're comparing the banality of "corporate evil" to actual evil.
I am sure if TikTok is owned by a western countries wouldn't yield into a result of lawmakers creating laws that is doing something very similar as CCP does, that is, operating Internet based service requires the company to be owned by a Chinese entity at majority, that is exactly the reason why Google quits China, and we used to dispise what CCP does, now we are like "CCP is doing the good stuff and we should follow"
Would any of those countries let us run a service with the same scale or influence in their borders? (Is there any non state media in those countries).
You're comparing the banality of "corporate evil" to actual evil.
I have no words.