Then ban FB and WhatsApp.
If you’re going to ban Chinese Intel platforms, then ban the American ones also.
Why do you think Google became the empire it is? https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance
You can’t point the finger at the Chinese when they are simply doing what we are and in fact —following— our lead.
The real problems:
At some point in history, instead of government actively protecting people’s privacy rights, they became the worst culprit.
Instead of government ensuring a free and competitive market, they actively chose the winners and losers and caused big tech to be created (a few oligopolies that own and control everything and work with government).
A bunch of hippies in a garage makes a much cooler story.