Yes, it is most certainly complicated. Your post gets to "the heart of the matter," IMHO. The "ownership" of information regarding our private lives. And "profiting" from it ... It is a very real and present danger.

"I am simply presenting this massive hypocrisy."

No question. This is just one of an endless number of examples, as we watch the final hours tick away of the Biden administration. Which I believe was the most egregious example of this in American history ...