Let's see the evidence first. Also, what about the fact that US tech companies "functions as a sophisticated surveillance tool that harvest extensive amounts of personal and sensitive data" which they share, without warrants, with the US intelligence agencies. I am more worried about that than the Chinese collecting info on TikTok users (though that is bad too).

Ayn Rand discussed this 56 year ago in her article "The Property Status of the Airwaves" in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal in which she stated "Now observe the practical demonstration that without property rights, no other rights are possible. If censorship and suppression of free speech ever gets established in this country, they will have originated in radio and television" (i.e. the FCC)