If it was just banning it on government devices, that would be one thing. Banning it for everyone is censorship, no matter how you try to put it. There's LOT of stuff that gets posted on there as to what's really going on in Gaza that gets censored everywhere else. Twitter used to be the platform for that until Adolf Musk bought it and started censoring the real shit but allowing far right super racist nonsense.
I honestly don't believe the super rush all of a sudden doesn't have anything to do with what's going on over there. As far as the data stuff goes, pretty sure the dude that owns facebook got hit with a huge fine in 2016 for selling information to whoever. If you have a social media app on your phone it's nothing but a data mine... whichever one it is.
All of em read and listen to your conversations. All of em track your location... they check and sell your search results to companies that can market to you.. so on and so forth. You just have to accept that if you have one of em on your phone. I won't even mention the mega miners like Google, Microsoft or Apple. A lot of folks still don't even understand that the reason why they're getting mcrib ads all over their phone, email, youtube, etc because they typed it in to a search engine... that is now advertising directly to you. That's just the nature of it.