I am for this decision, but I don't understand their justification for it. What was the actual reason they pulled back on this? The US government is assuredly f

I am for this decision, but I don't understand their justification for it. What was the actual reason they pulled back on this? The US government is assuredly for maximum surveillance, so long as the publicly visible part is done by private companies that can be subpoenaed for their data. FB needs to stay in the good graces of the military-industrial-political complex to avoid anti-trust action. FB doesn't do anything out of the good of their heart, so what are they getting out of this? I really doubt that winning the hearts of civil libertarians is at all important to them. (I also noticed how the NYT managed to get a dig into the discredited China story when discussing a company that was surveilling billions of people worldwide using facial recognition technology.)