>I would prefer to live in a free country…

Well if you’re in a country Trump has threatened to invade, or already invaded, having a free country might require banning these American companies.

Is there really a choice? Network effect means that the company that sells you cars also owns the road, and only allows its cars to drive on it.

What you want is the social graph, but you are forced to also use FBs shitty app to access it. These social media apps never had a single useful feature besides the graph itself.