I really don’t think the argument that because China is authoritarian, by your measure, internet communists will do ??? to mess with private instances holds any water.
And at the end of the day unless you want to be running software on the public internet which is out of date, you're going to be running their updates, which gives them long-term control and ability to mess with the network after time.
Plus the basic fact that writing such a large and popularly used piece of software gives you a fair amount of social credibility and attention which is not served by those people.
If someone is willing to go and do the legwork of doing a full audit and commit to maintenance of the project in the future I would totally run that code.
Until someone does, you should stay the heck away from it.