Companies like Google and Facebook (and like Apple) are worldwide companies. They feel strongly that protection of privacy and freedoms from search and reduction of privacy by the US government not be allowed to hurt their business. We have seen this with Google and Facebook as well as Apple. In Apple’s case the issue was allowing the US government to be given the ability to decrypt Apple iPhones. In Google and Facebook the issue is revealing who is buying ads and website space. Privacy is important to both US citizens and foreigners and protected by civil rights groups like the ACLU. I see this as a growing problem given the political importance of websites as sources of communication and of news with more and more people of all political positions worldwide getting news from Facebook for example (more than news media).