There's not enough storytelling here to create any sort of moral quandary. I agree that deleting Sphene's photo album of data wraiths from her cloud storage in response to her soldiers firing at Turali civilians seems like it could have been written as a very mean-spirited thing to do given the right story context, but it didn't even generate so much as a blink from anyone involved. It just doesn't seem like anyone in the story actually had any emotional connection to the event to properly contextualize it or attach any sort of values to it.

It's disappointing, I know. You came here looking for a philosophical debate and ended up with a consensus on the writing quality.