I don’t understand quite why the Cambridge Analytica affair has everyone so exercised.

Why does Facebook stealing and peddling your data matter more when it’s in the realm of politics? They are doing that in the commercial arena every day, every hour, every minute, every second. If that sort of thing had been done in the service of electing Clinton or even Sanders, half the people in paroxysms of sputtering outrage would instead be cheering.

Yeah, it is heinous, but so are absolutely all of the other things that Facebook is doing. Don’t understand why this occurrence is particularly special.