I think this is a poor analogy. You could get closer if you changed this: > but tell you that if you want your ring you have to let me talk to you for five mi

I think this is a poor analogy. You could get closer if you changed this: > but tell you that if you want your ring you have to let me talk to you for five minutes every time you get it to: > but mumble to you (unintelligibly, interspersed with vast amounts of mumbling about other things) that if you want your ring you have to let me talk to you for five minutes every time you get it While many on this site keep up with some of these things and can weigh the cost/benefit of using a walled garden, many do not. To tell someone "if you don't like it, don't do it" while completely avoiding the question of subversiveness on the part of the contract maker is disingenuous and not giving both sides of the argument a fair shake.