I hope HIVE grows. I talk about the importance of owning your own data too. Even our identities. Look, your username is important too! People have their handles turned into their brands!
Look, people like Elon would steal your entire identity if he could make a buck! Oh, in fact, he has! They took over the account name @music for their own use! The original owner posted how sad he was, that he spent a lot of time building it...poof! Not yours.
Jack did the same kind of thing. Both @Tyler and @Cameron were 'stolen' accounts. Twitter found a 'reason' to take them away. Why do you think that is? It's because Tyler and Cameron are his good friends - the Winklevoss twins! How would you like that? Create your account on the day Twitter opens. Your own name! Something to be proud of, maybe. Except you wake up one day and find out a billionaire stole it because he wants to look cool too!
Isn't it ironic, these are the same people that are 'into crypto'? They've spent their lives going around and ripping off people's digital assets all along. Now they want to tell you that they're altruistic and love blockchain. BS. They love the $, the attention, the vanity. They would take it if they could.
So ya, try and get off that shit.
Nothing was stolen. That is misleading. It is their platform. Am I stealing from you if your are in my house and I grab my coffee mug out of your hand?
It is mine.
On Web2, everything is theirs. That is the way it works. To think it is stolen is feeding into the misleading notion that people actually own something. They do not.
Everything is done with their permission. That is the message we need to spread.
Well yeah right technically.
But people build their whole businesses on social media. And it can all be 'taken away'. It feels stolen to the people owning it.