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https://youtube.com/watch?v=5CZNlaeZAtw John Oliver will describe it best
I think he does a good job at explaining both sides and calling for a root-cause solution, but he's definitely leaving out an important piece: the data collected by all the US social media companies can't just be taken by the US government. They need reasonable causes and go through channels where their access should be checked before they can get their hands on the data. The Chinese government, on the other hand, can just compel TikTok to hand over the data they want.
I don't like the data overreach by all big us tech companies, but at least their data has some safety rails around its usage.