The fact that anyone is surprised by Meta's data collection processes is surprising in itself. Did anyone not see the Facebook scandal?

This tactic is nothing new and they're only going to get worse. It's only a matter of time before Threads comes under the same scrutiny for predatory data collection methods.

No, a step in the right direction is for a government that can actually run a country and deliver solutions to it's people, not steal from them. Another step is to end systemic racism which the ruling party has done so with BEE causing more corruption in 30 years than we could have ever imagined.

If OpenAI is being roadblocked by all these social platforms why doesn't it decentralize and use the fediverse to learn?

It has everything to do with censorship. This sets a precedent in which a community can be banned by admins and moderators who deem a community to fall outside of their viewing needs.

This is controlling the narrative which we know LW cannot be held legally liable for what is posted on the web, otherwise we'd see search engines being shutdown for caching results.