I (, in a non facetious manner) honestly don&#x27;t get this. Aren&#x27;t all of the above listed giants the ones that are going out of their way to track, spam and use our personal lives as objects of advertisement in the first place?<p>How or why are they petitioning for the government to not be able to do what they&#x27;re already doing? Isn&#x27;t that completely ironic? Is this a case of <i>&quot;it&#x27;s okay if &#x2F;WE&#x2F; steal your data, but we don&#x27;t want to government too (so that only we have total access to it)&quot;</i>?<p>Someone more enlightened than me, please help me out.