Yes. If you choose not to take Facebook’s offering, you don’t get access to the things they and others build for their product. Do we want to make exclusivity deals between businesses illegal?

> Do we want to make exclusivity deals between businesses illegal?

In certain circumstances, we already do (kind of): FRAND licensing for technical standards are a good example.

But that's done voluntarily and not forced by the state?

>[...] (FRAND) terms, denote a voluntary licensing commitment that standards organizations often request from the owner of an intellectual property right (usually a patent) that is, or may become, essential to practice a technical standard.

AFAIK government terms often require FRAND licensing for technology developped with public funds.

I don't think we need to do that, but we do need to make sure corporations don't use the power they gain through those deals to make you endure the privacy abuses that come with a cloud requirement.

Its not just privacy. Corporate exclusivity power also hurts competition, which in the long run is worse for everyone. (Well, except maybe the monopolist).

For example, when AT&T owned all the telecoms equipment in the US, other companies couldn't make new products using their system (like answering machines or modems). Having anyone able to design, connect, use and sell new devices on top of their infrastructure is an incredibly important feature.

And facebook knows that. They launched facebook on the internet (which is an open platform). Facebook couldn't have been created in the first place if not for that.

Facebook owes its existence to open platforms. Lets not allow the train of innovation to stop here.