> In my view, we should let academia develop the protocols, and let companies deliver the basic tools (such as hardware). This makes sure that innovation happen

> In my view, we should let academia develop the protocols, and let companies deliver the basic tools (such as hardware). This makes sure that innovation happens in a way that people find useful (not serving advertisement/shareholder goals), and also keeps data out of the hands of companies (because universities will develop federated protocols to keep data safe, and companies actually have no business looking into our data). And what would you do if companies wanted to develop protocols, and people wanted to use them? The verb "let" sounds very innocuous here, but this is poorly thought-out at best, and extremely sinister at worst.