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This is a trade I'm willing to accept. I trust a VPS provider more with those records than I trust either Verizon or Comcast, both of which are motivated by advertising.

Just as far as everybody knows, that doesn't mean that it's necessarily true.

There can be a distinct difference between what is believed to be true and what's actually true.

There might very well be entities that has the information, but it's sitting on it for later use.

This isn't remotely true. Pretty much every journalist uses a commercial VPN.