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>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.

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:

> you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed

And people are still fine with this apparently, otherwise they wouldn't use the service anymore.

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I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide

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.

>And people are still fine with this apparently, otherwise they wouldn't use the service anymore.

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).

These TOS often actually violate GDPR. It's just that most of the time noone bothers to sue companies, except for small non profits like NYOB who actually have the resources and expertise to attack high profile companies in court.

Bullshit. The cost of not participating in the short term is high.

This is not a new development. All your content online hasn't been yours for nearly two decades. People who still don't get this seriously need to get educated and think about what they post - or simply stop posting.

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