I'm a bit annoyed by this reaction... Basically the likes of Google and Facebook have been abusing it to translate their monopoly in mature markets into competitive advantage in emerging markets.
Maybe it's time that, just like FB and Google are campaigning for the comoditization of broadband, we campaign for the classification of parts of their platforms/APIs as public utility.
I suspect if Facebook are still around and dominant in 20 years there will be officially-mandated features (not necessarily this one, most likely anti-harrasment or anti-fake-news) or national-level Facebook replacements in many non-US countries.
But the trouble is Facebook, Amazon, Google .. these companies are not only huge, they control distribution networks. Let's look at when Amazon removes a book from their store. Sure any retailer can choose not to supply a book, but when Amazon does it, their distribution network as become so large and central for most people that it does effectively censor the book. There are millions of people who only buy books through their service.
I'm not saying they should be public entities, but you need to be aware of the fact that they do effectively control the flow of information just due to their sheer market share.
They're huge precisely because they control distribution networks.
I'm not asking to nationalise these companies. I'm saying public investigations in the current activities of FB and especially Google, in the light of antitrust laws, are overdue now : just as browsers were the gateway to internet and Microsoft got smacked for it, FB and Google are the new gateways to internet content, and therefore we should acknowledge that public interest should be considered in the way these businesses operate now.
Live streaming gigabytes per second is not cheap, and its not surprising they'd only want to do it from their own app where they can at least show you their ads to try and recoup some of the cost.