With Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, and Instagram, Facebook has a near monopoly on messaging and social media in a solid number of countries (e.g., the Netherlan

With Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, and Instagram, Facebook has a near monopoly on messaging and social media in a solid number of countries (e.g., the Netherlands or Brazil). At some point such a product ceases to be a thing you buy or opt-in to out of a fair balanced choice (in the capitalist sense), and becomes something you are coerced to use because 'everyone' expects it. Simply put: you either agree to Facebook's terms of service, or, depending on your social circles, you become a digital hermit. At that point regulation becomes a necessity to safeguard citizen's rights and freedoms. Such regulation includes more stringent checks on the permissiveness of corporate takeovers by the behemoth (again, this is nothing revolutionary, it is common in all capitalist democracies). Start with breaking out Whatsapp and Instagram. Those mergers should never have been approved. Either that, or force the platform to be open to third party clients and introduce a fairly priced way to use those services without paying with your data.