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Nothing important for the world. But at least the employees could be able to enter the building.

That's a pretty ignorant statement. Facebook and its services, especially Whatsapp, are the most widespread form of communication in many countries. Particularly in poor/developing countries, hardly anything else is used because mobile Internet is available cheaply, unlike voice services and SMS. Whatsapp is indispensable there.

See https://www.statista.com/statistics/291540/mobile-internet-u... for example.

If Facebook wasn’t there monetizing their data to keep them in poverty maybe an open source tool would be instead.

That’s an amazingly ignorant statement. A lot of the value of WhatsApp at acquisition time was that it supported a ton of feature phones and J2ME, something largely ignored in the West. You can have open source all you want but someone still has to run infra.

That's an argument against the Facebook Empire, not an argument for it.

Economies and comms infra should not have a single point of failure - clearly.

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