Killing the open internet is generally a good thing. Large companies and hostile nation states benefit from the open internet massively, while providing none of it back. The Chinese intranet is not accessible to EU/NA scrapers, but they can read all of our scientific journals. Facebook posts aren’t freely available for you to scrape, but llama is trained on obscure usenet posts and the entire comment history of reddit and hackernews. North Korea has their own linux distribution. Etc.

If the open internet is already dead (and it is already dead), it’s better to accept that reality and silo off the good parts behind paywalls so that people can get paid, rather than to let bad people benefit massively from it while they build their walled gardens. This has been a long time coming.