> Rather than breaking up the US companies, a more realistic approach would be to require that users on US social networks be able to friend/follow people on co

> Rather than breaking up the US companies, a more realistic approach would be to require that users on US social networks be able to friend/follow people on competing social networks, using open standards (i.e. the Fediverse). I think this attacks the problem from the wrong perspective. I think a more realistic approach would be to require institutions which use public funds (government entities, community groups, schools, libraries, et cetera) to adopt these open standards themselves and to bootstrap their necessary infrastructure to broadcast messages into this new platform. Everyone in the public sector has a Twitter account, a Facebook account, an Instagram account, ad infinitum, these public organizations need to be mandated to build out their own social infra (or to buy from a competent provider exposing these services in the same way they'd buy email and web hosting).