We don't need to take the Internet back from the various platforms, we need serious and strict legislation about what they do with both what we share and what we are. There is nothing wrong with a Facebook inherently; the simple fact is we as users have been extremely complacent in what companies like Facebook are allowed to do. I think that's starting to get better as the population gets more savvy but at the same time we're still nowhere close to where we need to be.

I think it's a fundamental problem with how you approach the relationship with a service like that: They give you a Terms of Service, or what you're allowed to do to be able to use that service. I think we need to flip that around entirely and instead mandate that Facebook has to ask, explicitly, for everything. And more importantly there need to be serious consequences for when those rules are violated. Every relationship with a network of any kind starts at a position of they own everything, and then they tell you what you actually own and I think it's backwards. We should start from a position of we own everything, and this is what you're ALLOWED to take and use.

I think that's far more feasible to do than a distributed Facebook. Not saying it's impossible, just saying it's a shorter route and betters the relationship we have with the things and companies we do business with overall.