as insidious as those applications may be, it is not the place or responsibility of the government to restrict private access. Caveat emptor, so to speak.
government can restrict access to those apps on government equipment or when employed by the government.
These two communist apps are no different than the Ruskies tapping one of the main Telephone trunk lines between the USA and Europe during the cold war.
Both apps were developed under the approval and direction of the CCP to take advantage of the normalcy bias of the majority of Americans to intercept and analyze communications. They were built to allow the CCP agents to use to pump propaganda into this country.
The Chinese are our enemies and we should be actively involved in taking back everything that was moved there through the Clinton, Bush and Obama reigns. There shouldn't be a single piece of technology that isn't monitored and protected against them misusing it for the purpose of eventually hurting the USA..
During WWII many of the "major" manufactures in this country had ties with and some even supported Hitler's rise to power. They had their German branches running throughout the war producing critical goods for the German war effort.
The same drive for money that was there then, is still here. Google has been in bed with the Chinese for some time, in hopes of gaining a bigger slice of the growing Chinese economic pie. Microsoft even made changes to their operating system for use in China. The Chinese have their countrymen involved in every major lab all across the USA and probably have copies of every new technology under development here, there.