[jellicle]

> then what incentive does Facebook have to stop its consistently user-hostile business practices

Once upon a time in the USA, and in some nations today, there was/is regulation in the public interest. Why not try it in the USA?

[briandear]

You aren't required to use Facebook. You can, in less than one second, stop using it.

It isn't electricity, roads, water. It's freakin' Facebook.

[code_duck]

The point wasn’t that they have a monopoly, it was that they have unfair business practices.