For years, I've highlighted the threat of services either being forced to divulge all content to third parties or becoming unavailable entirely due to policy or legal changes that apply to the service provider.

We've seen both for years now. Some AI models pulled are just the latest manifestation of this. It remains to be seen if this will lead to actual implementation of sovereign platforms and systems, or at least avoiding full monoculture.

I am not holding my breath.

Sovereign infrastructure isn't a maybe-someday project. It's what you run when you've already been burned. The AI model pulldowns are just teaching that lesson to a new audience.