Who else still exists/matters?
> are useless and harmful
If they were actually useless, it'd be easy.
> need to be dealt with
How do you "deal with" something that gets constant free advertising everywhere from the BBC to bog roll?
In the time between your two posts, Facebook's userbase grew by over ten thousand. How do you respond to that?
You can't just chop Zuckerberg's head off and have everyone return to normal.
Facebook was never benign but has taken a role that should be occupied by standards, protocols, and multiple solutions.
It probably could have been done 20 years ago, but we're now in a world where we're struggling with Net Neutrality, we have gazillions of unregulated unpatchable bug ridden wifi toasters, and very few people even try to think for themselves any more.
A miracle would be nice, but it's better not to rely on one.
Even just for a day or so, and at the end if you've accidentally lost Theresa somewhere in the Canadian wilderness then no biggie, you just have to provide a replacement of equal or greater value.