A non-strawman version would be, basically let individual communities and their leaders decide for themselves what their future free-as-in-freedom comms platfor

A non-strawman version would be, basically let individual communities and their leaders decide for themselves what their future free-as-in-freedom comms platform is, without unsolicited technical interference from their current comms platform. Imagine if your e-mail provider learned you were considering switching to another provider, and without warning, locked you out of your e-mail account, and then used it to advertise a new e-mail account, created by them, in your name, that you have no control over, to all your acquaintances, saying that you aren't actually switching providers, and the new e-mail account is the real one. These are the actions of a sociopath.