I won’t cheer on the hack or data leak because I think you’ll have well meaning people that are just frustrated caught up in the controversy, but I’m not overly sympathetic to anyone involved. I think it would be better if no one donated to polarizing causes, especially anything where people are asking for a democratically elected government to step down.

As for the company, it’s obvious they’re going to draw a ton of attention by using a controversial political event as a marketing tool. If they can’t even bother to secure their S3 buckets (unrelated to this) before ruffling a bunch of feathers, why should we feel bad for them? It’s not some innocent site that got hacked and had their business ruined. They’re trying to claim they’re a neutral platform, but there’s no such thing in politics. They’re taking a calculated risk by trying to benefit from the controversy and they got burned. Tough luck IMO.

The only true political neutrality if you’re running a platform is a total ban on everything political.