Personally, I'm agnostic about the issue because I don't have the necessary data to evaluate it. If there are legitimate concerns by intelligence agencies that

Personally, I'm agnostic about the issue because I don't have the necessary data to evaluate it. If there are legitimate concerns by intelligence agencies that the CCP might use TikTok to influence users or spy on them on a large scale (which is very well possible), then I'm entirely for the ban and the question whether other intelligence agencies do the same is irrelevant. I don't think "it's okay because everybody does it" arguments are sound. However, if there is no evidence for such behavior, then I'm against the ban. So far I haven't seen any evidence, but it's unfortunately not hard to imagine how the Chinese government would abuse a large social network for their purposes. They certainly do that domestically.