This is also a myopic argument against funding standards bodies that support the internet.

The point of having a global, shared database is a single, authoritative (more-or-less), semi-vetted repository that can hold vendor accountable externally without digital amnesia or downplaying issues, and global unique identifiers. If that takes an international nonprofit funded by bits of the free world who are okay with investing in commonwealth infrastructure, so be it. Those who don't understand what they're destroying so casually are ignorant, and possibly evil if they do understand.