Banning Whatsapp would not be a bad thing. It's owned by fiat social media criminals Meta. 

If banning it onboards more people to #Amethyst / #Nostr then it's inconvenient for some but an overall win.

IMO... Internet security, privacy and all that jazz is as important as BTC for freedom. The people scraping and selling our data are Appl$, M$, Googl$, Met$ and the rest... Even the bank$. Fiat tech giants are evil.