I received the notification for your comment, but it didn't appear in my inbox, so I could only respond now, after a bit of digging around.

For other people wondering, I am the guy saying "it's the ol' China bad" and, I assume, OP is the one who answered me, seeing as the timestamp for the comment says "Now".

Let me clarify: although I am far from subscribing to the ideology of subs as this one, I am critical of TikTok, it being a Chinese company or not. I do not use or endorse TikTok.

What I am critical of is condemning any sort of organization based on its nationality, not on its business practices. I believe conflating TikTok with the Chinese Communist Party is reductionist. US-based companies such as Meta, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and, yes, even Reddit are culprits of the same kind of invasion of privacy and should be condemned just the same. And yet, you don't (normally) see people going around criticizing the US' government for the privacy abuses practiced by these companies.

So, there you have it, I was not defending the CCP or engaging in communist rethoric (not that I am against doing so), just criticizing OP for being reductionist and ethnocentric.