third-party private businesses are fine. the problem is third-party private businesses whose business model is that you can only talk to your friends and family if you let them (the business) manipulate you and sell your private data. starbucks isn't going to interrupt my conversation with my wife to try to upsell me junk food, or to try to manipulate us into fighting to 'drive engagement' from their other customers, and they aren't going to kick me out if i pay cash, or without explanation or appeal. if they did, it wouldn't cut me off from my social group; we'd just meet up somewhere less hostile

the problem isn't the amount of revenue fecebutt or slack extracts (mostly; parks are still better than starbucks if some of your friends are poor or struggling to eat healthy). it's the revenue model. apple's is okay. verizon's is great. comcast's is acceptable. level3's is fantastic. but twitter's is a tornado of diarrhea, and slack's is being literal ransomware