It is awful that staying in contact with messages from friends and loved ones forces one to be exposed to Facebook's addictive advertising, propaganda and surve

It is awful that staying in contact with messages from friends and loved ones forces one to be exposed to Facebook's addictive advertising, propaganda and surveillance machine - especially as Facebook is a monopoly. Legislation enshrining adversarial interoperability would allow competition to improve user experience. But now Facebook is a kingmaker akin to the Murdoch press legislators are not incentivised to corral Facebook. Imagine a message client that interacts with facebookosphere and allows the use of a single detoxified client for messages and feeds from all protocols, services and ospheres.