It doesn't matter what is blocked today, it matters what is blocked tomorrow.

If we allow these providers to promote regulatory capture they become the arbiter of what anyone is "allowed" to do

I think when the open source models catch up (likely soon) we'll long for the days when companies could control it like this. I could easily see a teenager with openclaw and a single prompt causing millions of dollars in damage. Multiply that by the number of stupid people in the world and we have a problem.