I think our intelligence agencies have a self-consistent worldview, they are on one side, the other guys are an another side, and they are trying to beat the other side, so they try to gather intelligence while not letting the other side gather intelligence.
Like, in a war, one would never say “you keep shooting at me, but when I try to shoot back, you take cover—hypocrisy!” It’s just the nature of competition to try and make advantage for yourself.
(I happen to disagree with this worldview, not because it is hypocritical but because I think it is still bad to violate your own citizens privacy even if you have a good excuse).
Especially in a third party country where there is no good reason to pretend to think Meta or whatever are in the patriotic yay Fooland#1 woho-team.
You are not wrong for calling this site to have been infilterated by western hypocrites.
EDIT: for what it is worth, I just asked Gemini Flash 2 and ChatGPT this question and indeed according to these “sources” my perception seems correct.
I am unaware of anything similar happening with competitors.
There is always a threat, but so far this is the closest thing we have seen to a smoking gun.
And if you don't understand why South Korea might have concerns about it's big neighbour China and consider them a bad actor, well .... maybe your simplistic view of good and bad countries is a representation of your own world view.