There is nothing xenophobic about laws forbidding foreign ownership of critical infrastructure.

It is, in fact, simply rational, flowing from a rational assessment of rational motive and opportunity. It is democracy protecting. Like the Foreign Emoluments clause. If you support the ban on foreign corporate spending in US elections, you should support a ban on foreign government ownership of essential communications facilities.

1/ "It is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments 2/ instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class;