I don't get this post. Yes a lot of people rely on Whatsapp, but what does the fact the company had an outage have to do with regulation? There are other means

I don't get this post. Yes a lot of people rely on Whatsapp, but what does the fact the company had an outage have to do with regulation? There are other means of communication that people can fallback to. Your smartphone can still make calls and send SMS.