Following your value statements, somehow we’re just supposed to ignore the CCP policy of US accelerationism? Like I said in another comment (here I will point out the paper says this) the difference is a political party in China manipulating content behind the scenes and Instagram manipulating content based on their publicly available content policy. Additionally the former is specifically geared towards CCP interests, not based on citizens outlook or morality, whereas Instagram attempts to cater to what they believe is the moral perspective of their users.
> the difference is a political party in China manipulating content behind the scene
It’s also meaningful that it’s China. They’re an adversary. This would be very different if we were talking about France or India.
And to underscore that, the CCP has openly said and planned to be the dominate financial, political, and military force on the globe. Their intention and actions are exactly to reduce not just US influence but all other influence. Neither France nor India take that stand point. A country hell bent on global domination has never worked anyway.
Do you have a quote from anybody you're basing that on?