It should be clear now that it was and remains a catastrophic mistake for people to view privately owned social media platforms as any kind of public resource. People didn't know better a decade ago. They have no excuse now.
@dangoodin to be honest it felt weird to begin with. I knew servers cost like a lot. Designing a website was way harder back then (like coding in notepad or vim hard). People earned good money from that.
And suddenly there is a website call facesomething which offers you this cool stuff all for free.
We might not have known it, but we had hunches!