These tongue-lashings of big tech are getting a tad ridiculous. Yes, how could we possibly have known that they were doing the things they said they were doing? How shocking, this surveillance regime, that took all the data we gave them, and then blatantly invaded our privacy, by reading it!

This is like an oil company spilling billions of barrels of oil into a sensitive habitat, and then the predictably excoriating hyperbolic complaints and disclaims of surprise. Oh, how could they extract that oil from the ocean floor, from the thousands of oil platforms that we've known have existed for decades! But in fact, we know they're there, and we know what the consequences are. So we go on social media and read these posts about how terrible the spill is, and cry-emoji over the birds covered in oil. And then we go fill up with 87 octane.