I don't see how you can read that in those texts. Also, I'm sure facebook would be open to fix that given the tools to do so (maybe http proxy).
Plus I find it extremely hard to believe a government is concerned about it's citizen's privacy. I find it much more likely that the Egyptian government wanted guarantees that it could spy on everything done on Egyptian wireless networks.
It seems to me what that sentence is saying is just the opposite of what you claim : that Facebook refused to let the Egyptian government spy on all traffic over their free basics.
Plus I find it extremely hard to believe a government is concerned about it's citizen's privacy. I find it much more likely that the Egyptian government wanted guarantees that it could spy on everything done on Egyptian wireless networks.
It seems to me what that sentence is saying is just the opposite of what you claim : that Facebook refused to let the Egyptian government spy on all traffic over their free basics.