Everything be it software or anything else is beholden only to those who is the highest bidder. Being FOSS doesn’t change anything. This has been true for some time now that Linux and TLF is duty bound to businesses running it.
It had been covert till now, it is the overtness of this action which is surprising to most. I for one am surprised it didnt happen sooner.
After election protests were shot at, broken up and arrested. Election is the only way to change how stuff is today.