There is no hypocrisy: those people would continue thinking that if they put "their" bits in the public, they would also be free. That has nothing to do with th

There is no hypocrisy: those people would continue thinking that if they put "their" bits in the public, they would also be free. That has nothing to do with the government being able to interfere with your private relationship with a cloud service. Here, since you brought up physical items perhaps I can make it clearer: I have a manuscript for a new book which I keep in a safe at home. I may believe that once a book is "out in the wild", anyone should be allowed to copy it. However, that does not mean I think it is OK for the government to have the right to open up my security box at a bank and read the manuscript if I choose to use "cloud safes" (AKA banks) instead of my own personal safe at home. The problem here is not really the reading of the book, but interfering with my agreement with the bank that only I should be allowed into the safe, regardless of what may or may not be in there.