See I honestly think it’s because they’re so old that they genuinely don’t understand that issue
They’re going after TikTok because foreign ownership of a National Security related industry gives them Red Scare flashbacks
Most of the leadership are people who went through the Cuba-Turkey missile crisis, and it fucking shows, you could show these people a hello world program and they’d think it was hacking.
Don’t run yourself ragged worrying about malicious intent when plain old incompetence suffices Occam’s Razor