I mean it isn't crazy to not want to provide data to companies who 1. are incentivised to abuse it and 2. are probably to lazy to take measures to protect it.
Last time I heard that, it was that it was the object of a hackathon they ran amongst employees. So not sure if they are actually still working on that.
How would you envision us curating? We as admins have a simple goal: make sure the site rules are followed, and help if a mod requests it. If with curating you mean that we delete stuff that doesn't follow the rules, then yes we curate, if you mean that we only allow stuff we like, than no we have never and will never do that.
Could you maybe put the article in the URL section of the post? Makes it a bit easier to get to it (: