Oh absolutely it would cause problems. And no the answer isn’t that simple. It rarely is.

I’m not American.

A ban would fix a lot of problems. But only because the platforms moderate things to match the platform owners opinions.

Platforms enabling free speech are beneficial.

I didn’t need a ban. They enshitified and I moved on. All Meta apps (including WhatsApp) gone. X/Twitter gone. LinkedIn gone. Reddit gone.

Now I use Lemmy, Mastodon/BlueSky, and Signal.