Is India the West now? This alone tells me that you aren’t coming this from a data pov and simply playing team sports.
My problem with this “analysis” is it stems from xenophobia rather than the actual problem with these social networks.
The idea that we must “act now” with TikTok when Meta has been a worse actor is just anti-Chinese; we are pretending that Meta wont just bend over to the CCP as well if given the chance - we already have several of our companies self-censoring on issues that might anger the CCP.
Banning TikTok won’t fix the underlying problem and if your concern is China collecting data on US citizens you should understand there are very little controls in place, today, to prevent that from happening with any foreign actor. I don’t think China would have to pull teeth to exfiltrate data from any of the other social networks.
>Also, I am not really sure with all the equivalence to Meta in this thread.
Which company is implicated in a genocide in India neighboring states? Again is your concern actually about people or is it just “China scary”.