When the White House told Anthropic to take Fable offline - they did it. They are all going to comply with FISA warrants that the public will never see.

What? The US govt has in practice unlimited access to whatever that's hosted in the US, or even outside by a US company. It's called the CLOUD act.

Of course they do. See Zuckerberg's episode on Joe Rogan.

And that changes things how exactly? The problem is that American companies have been stealing our data for decades, not their ties to the government.

Oh but they absolutely do. The difference was mainly that up to a few years ago, the American government (generally) didn't care to repress those with the "wrong" opinions. Whereas China was always quite adamant about it.