> Why does Facebook seem to be more accommodating than HN when it comes to giving me the freedom to access my own data? Presumably for the same reason that Eri

> Why does Facebook seem to be more accommodating than HN when it comes to giving me the freedom to access my own data? Presumably for the same reason that Eric Lippert gives for why certain nice and intuitive language features aren't implemented in C#: someone has to implement them. For HN to have Facebook-grade privacy controls and account management, someone would have to write that code.