You're mixing a whole lot of things in a big ball of mud here, with a lot of half-truths and assumptions. Are you doing that on purpose?
This is not about data that is private, it's not a 'copy of your private data against your wishes', it's research access to public data that has impact on civil society due to the outsized impact on daily life some multinationals have.
As for 'liberty': corporations are not people, if anything, society should be free to not have commercial meddling involved in their life. As with everything else there is a gradient here, it's not some extreme choice there either everything is allowed or nothing is allowed. But messing with society is something that is worth preventing, intentional or not. It takes data and research to do that. In most cases, public data, and that is what this is about.
Which researchers will have access? Who decides upon them and what is their specific objective? Can I have access to it for my research?
> commercial meddling
What do you mean by this? Who is meddling and with what?
The user of social media has a personal engagement with that company. I don't think a government should be involved in that relationship. Why do you think it should?
