Yea, I agree that her reasoning isn't entirely well founded. But I'm nonetheless empathetic, because she's an embattled blogger fighting trolls to justify her w

Yea, I agree that her reasoning isn't entirely well founded. But I'm nonetheless empathetic, because she's an embattled blogger fighting trolls to justify her work all the time, and the gap between that experience and the idealistic motivations for a universal annotation platform must be enormous. From our tech-centric perspectives, the value of a universal annotation platform seems self evident, but for a layman's perspective, it just seems like another toxic commenting layer that content creators can't moderate (which, in the ideal, it is). The fact that it's then collocated with their content, instead of, say, a click away on HN or twitter, makes it feel more violating. The truly ideal platform would have massive adoption with benevolent power users that both prevented abuse and generated value adding content by verifying factual claims, adding appropriate context, etc. This ideal use case is pretty far from Genius's original platform (explaining rap lyrics in an entertaining fashion), and that mismatch of intents seems to be the source of the problem.