A A Telegram’s Twitter jibes at instant messaging giant WhatsApp, in response to the latter’s imposition of new privacy-violating conditions on its users, were remarkably expressive. Telegram took the social network by storm after tweeting a GIF of the popular meme, the Coffin Dance (aka the dancing pallbearers), with a picture of WhatsApp’s controversial privacy update on the coffin. The update, which experts have described as a flagrant violation of privacy, has left many fearful of the implications for the security of users’ private messages once they are shared with WhatsApp’s mother company, Facebook. WhatsApp’s step coincides with another war waged by the world’s major tech companies, with Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Google, and YouTube. They decided to launch a fierce battle against US President Donald Trump, suspending and removing his accounts and banning him for their platforms. Regardless of whether or not Trump deserved this after the incident at the Capitol and the accusations that he had indirectly called for an insurrection, the more important issue is that these companies were able to do this with the stroke of a pen, without needing a judicial verdict to justify their step. This pushed the German chancellor, who is by no means on friendly terms with Trump, to say that it is the prerogative of lawmakers- not private companies- to put constraints on freedom of expression. Here, any user of these applications is entitled to ask himself a simple question: If the tech giants could do this to the leader of the world’s major country, preventing him, overnight, from communicating with the 88 million people who followed, what could about me, a basic user? How will I be dealt with? Will his fears be taken seriously, or will they be disregarded?! We certainly know the answer.