It is awful that staying in contact with messages from friends and loved ones forces one to be exposed to Facebook's addictive advertising, propaganda and surveillance machine - especially as Facebook is a monopoly.

Legislation enshrining adversarial interoperability would allow competition to improve user experience.

But now Facebook is a kingmaker akin to the Murdoch press legislators are not incentivised to corral Facebook.

Imagine a message client that interacts with facebookosphere and allows the use of a single detoxified client for messages and feeds from all protocols, services and ospheres.