It highlights a sickness that every social network has, and explains the title of the article well using real-world examples that folks are likely to understand. I see what you're getting at with getting too deep into all the nuance a subject has, but the nuance in this case just isn't very thick: "social media" makes it's profit by using you as a resource, which means spying. If you use anything in that space, it will spy on you. And it is all for the same reasons.

That said, it doesn't have to be repeatedly discussed. That's fair! But this article is high up and generating comments, so I feel other folks don't agree with you :)

> there is a meaningful difference between these actions taken by a geopolitical adversary and these actions taken by SV growth hacker culture.

Both countries are about equally likely to throw me in prison or harm me in some way. SV also exists to funnel data into the spy complex of the US (just as TikTok probably does for China). For someone outside of the US (and even inside...) the threat levels are the same.