the trade issue alone is enough for me to support banning it the rest is just noise.
If, as soon as a non-American company has the same leverage over American citizens, the US government immediately starts freaking out, then it significantly weakens the integrity of that argument.
For example, Facebook misinformation was a significant catalyst for the persecution and massacre of the Rohingyas. It wasn't until, I think, last year, that Facebook finally got around to hiring a policy expert on Myanmar and only because of the bad Western press it got, not because of any action the Myanmar government itself could have initiated. America's do as I say, not as I do attitude is going to push more and more countries to require some form of cyber-sovereignty as a market condition for access now that the US has laid the precedent.
I predicted last year that cyber-sovereignty was going to be one of the defining issues in tech for the next decade and we're about to start seeing whether some of the predictions I made will come true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19824699
"Freaking out" is a loaded term that employs weasel words to make believe that it's silly for a nation to be wary of outsider's influence. It is far from silly. It's the most basic of precautions.
Considering that on the other side there's China's totalitarian dictatorship, not only are these precautions very basic but also absolutely necessary.
It's absurd we should allow apps with deep CCP interests on our networks and devices when they veraciously block & censor any access to their people.
USA propaganda, censorship, and surveilence is not "good".
There is universal, unalienable, human rights. Governments do not own their citizens. They do not have absolute control over them. Govs "rights" end where ours start.
Routinely forgotten when people get fear mongered or try hard waving the flag.
I swear, it's like people aren't even capable of logical thought anymore.