Facebook is not a monopoly. Is there an alternative social media? No, but that makes it a monopsony, since you work for Facebook by using the site, and they pay

Facebook is not a monopoly. Is there an alternative social media? No, but that makes it a monopsony, since you work for Facebook by using the site, and they pay you in cat pictures. Facebook's business is ads, and its competitors are Google and television. Facebook doesn't merely allow sharing information, it facilitates it -- worse, it selectively facilitates information whose availability is useful to Facebook, not to you. Facebook spends billions of dollars developing algorithms to control what you see on Facebook. Where in the "free expression" handbook does it mention that newsfeed posts which support the bottom line shall be seen more often than those that don't? This idea, that anything that happens on Facebook has anything to do with "free expression" or open, unmediated communication between acquaintances, is the first thing that we need to get rid of. When people stop believing that, they might use Facebook much less -- which would be a good thing!