I didn’t say anything about where they are headquartered. As Martin Armstrong stated in the article, “TikTok is not even available in mainland China as their version is heavily censored. TikTok is a subsidiary of ByteDance, a private company that is not owned by the Chinese government. About 60% of the company is owned by institutional investors, 20% is owned by the founder, and the other 20% is owned by employees. ByteDance has five board members and three of them are American. Their headquarters are in Singapore and Los Angeles, and they have 7,000 employees in the US.”
The US government does warrantless searches on US citizens routinely, and coerces US companies to censor US citizens in ways that heavily influence the outcome of Presidential elections, as was admitted by Mark Zuckerberg. TikTok allows US citizens to speak freely without censorship. I’ll take TiKTok.
All Chinese companies are de facto controlled by the Chinese government, who owns it on paper is meaningless.
We can prevent the abuses of the power by the US government and institutions without surrendering ourselves to CCP controlled institutions that will without doubt use the power against us when the opportunity presents itself.
We should strive to be free of both.