We post regularly online without any expectation of payment but then we never considered that the output could or would be used for commercial purpose. The value of our collective output is being captured by a very small elite. Not sure what we can do about this, other than support alternative eco-systems at least to ensure that intra-corporate competition might keep prices low
We did. If you are posting here, that means you've explicitly stated that you read and agreed to Y Combinator's TOS. Which include this clause:
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And people are still fine with this apparently, otherwise they wouldn't use the service anymore.
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
It's heavily skewed against us, but you can still argue the 3c's here. consulation is the licence, consent is agreement, compensation is agreed upon as none for the user.
What's not in that agreement is letting non-afiliated companies do any of the above actions. And I believe the privacy policy and GDPR cover other clauses pertaining to the sell of our data.
>Sale or Sharing of Personal Information. We do not sell or share your Personal Information (as those terms are defined under the CCPA).
For Hollywood writers, artists, musicians, book authors it is much easier to protest. You could go to Redmond for a couple of weekends, camp on "One True Microsoft Way" and protest.
And the NYT would cover this, since its interests are aligned with the protesters.
We need the public square back, we need it conceptualised as such. The death of twitter was horrifying, apparently you can just BUY it.
Excuse my passionate language, but fuck these predators.