All right, fair enough, but I still think questions about whether or not Meta handed over the data in response to a legally enforceable request from the government vs. as a voluntary act based on their board’s political views or something is a valid one. Meta doing it on their own certainly is politically-motivated “snitching,” but if they’re just complying with a government order, then the problem lies more with the government in this instance than with Meta.

I’d like to hope that in the future we ban these sorts of data collection things, but…I’m pretty pessimistic when it comes to this sort of thing.