You could rely on government to try to rein them in — good luck. Didn’t work with Ma Bell, the pieces still charged $3 a minute.

Or you could contribute to open protocols, and do to the tech giants what:

  The Web did to AOL, MSN, etc.
  VoIP did to AT&T, Sprint, etc.
  Wikipedia did to Britannica
  OpenStreetMap will do to Google Maps
   etc.

Open, permissionless networks beat closed, proprietary ones once they are good enough.

I spent 10 years and over $1 million from my company’s revenues to build an open source social operating system to power pretty much all the applications you’d want:

https://qbix.com

Hope it helps! About to release v2.0 on GitHub

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

(And 5 years ago spun off https://intercoin.org/applications — we are still in the development stage on that one).