> It doesn’t matter what the app does today it can be made to do anything they want after the fact.

This is an extremely important point of universal application that can't be emphasized too much.

Even if one agrees with a current politician's position, once the precedent is set, there's nothing stopping an administration down the line extending the reach of an already installed and by then socially accepted mechanism.

Someone called this the "totalitarian tip toe"; that guy (who shall rename unnamed) was "a bit weird", but his concept stands anyway imo.