Nice. Ditch WhatsApp. Use an app that has no user identifiers to begin with so no chance of that happening, that is apps like https://simplex.chat/

well i won’t be using anything google.

Which one in specific? There are some packages which maintainers did not bother creating xdg desktop specification… you can look into nixpkgs source code to see if they are specified there or not.

I do not know if Debian is able to pick the desktop files though

Rules can only do so much as it was written down. They incentive burocracy.

The narrative typically takes the side of ‘open/free speech’ is tantamount and that any suppression of said speech is unwelcome (typically said in a much more hostile way).

I’m not too sure about US in specific, but there are democratic countries’ law where free speech is not an absolute guaranteed right; it cannot go against other laws, human dignity, …