The fact they would not exist without the leeches and built their business on the leeches is irrelevant.
Pan-nationalism is a hell of a drug: a company that does not know you exist puts out an objectively awful release, and people take frank discussion of it as a personal slight.
If you want to allocate capital efficiently planet-scale you have to ignore nations to the largest extent possible.
> The fact they would not exist without the leeches and built their business on the leeches is irrelevant.
How so?
Those who crawled the web without consent, and then put their LLM in a blackbox without attribution, with secret prompt and secret weights -- ie. all of this without giving back, while creating tons of Co2. Those are the leeches.