

To be pedantic, that’s not consistent with Libertarian dogma from Libertarians I have spoken with. NOAA/Weather was one of the parts of government that they were consistently in favor of being a government service vs privatized, along with defense and other base infrastructure (like the power lines being public while the generators are private). I guess it’s possible that I’ve not gotten updated since 2020, but the logic at least used to be internally consistent there.
Alternatively, you use the cloudflare money to sue the monopoly to decouple search and all other products, since blocking the AI trawlers shouldn’t have any measurable impact in search rankings