A Lesson for Tech Giants: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

As in Silicon Valley, Chinese tech companies like to think of themselves as agents of positive change. And just as in the U.S., the public doesn’t always see them that way.

China’s three main online meal-delivery services are in the crosshairs of public opinion over perceptions they’re not socially responsible. A nonprofit group is suing the companies—Ele.me, Baidu Waimai and Meituan Dianping—for generating huge amounts of waste that...