You don't really get to become a billionaire in the US without playing well with the establishment, so quite a few people believe that at some point someone pus

You don't really get to become a billionaire in the US without playing well with the establishment, so quite a few people believe that at some point someone pushed him a little too hard to do something he didn't want. I'm in favour of the leaks, but ultimately none of the surveillance laws that whistle-blowers exposed in the past two decades were actually repealed at a later point. However, the very fact that this causes such huge debate in the US points to a much healthier public discourse in the US than most western societies in my opinion. I do think that he probably regretted having to actually commit to the sale. This whole thing reminds me a bit to dealing with racist bouncers growing up. I'd leave disappointed thinking to myself that one day "I'll buy a club myself and put high quality bouncers there that judge people by their substance" only to forget about it a few weeks later. Except that in this case there were also a couple million people every day daring him to do it.