You don't get to pick what is necessary and what is not, that is a job for Communists.
Facebook and Twitter are the greatest political weapon ever devised and your solution is don't use them.
Sure you can start a competitor all you have to do is convince the advertisers that your list of a dozen users is some how superior to their 2.6 billion. Good luck.
Do you remember which prominent politician first pointed out the power of Social Media in the elections? They were rejected out of hand.
“You don’t get to pick what is necessary and what is not, that is a job for Communists.”
You’re the one deciding to go break up a company which isn’t a monopoly and which you can easily choose to not use, denying others the choice to use it.
Only communists compel people to compel associations with others en masse.
“Facebook and Twitter are the greatest political weapon ever devised and your solution is don’t use them.”
Yes.
Precisely because, based on decades of observation, such sites have a finite lifespan and the predicted mass exodus from FB/T is under way. I _have_ watched vast user counts leave “unstoppable juggernauts” practically overnight for upstarts.
A main point of capitalistic conservatism is “keep gov’t hands off voluntary business”.
Seriously: there is nothing about FB/T which not using proves crippling to one’s standard of living. Your only interest in breaking them up is because YOU don’t like their sociopolitical influence, so you want to use the police power of the state to interfere - which I find anathema, as you’re working against freedom of speech & freedom of association.
Freedom of speech.
Freedom of association.
Freedom of contract.
Remember: Hillary had _everything_ lined up against Trump, and massively lost. We don’t need itsahoot to protect us from Facebook.
Have YOU stopped using Facebook, Twitter, or the like - completely?