> He reminded us that “there has always been a relationship between the performer and the audience that hasn't been well mapped,” and that “you would never clai

> He reminded us that “there has always been a relationship between the performer and the audience that hasn't been well mapped,” and that “you would never claim to own your friendships.” Then two of the currently wealthiest plantation owners on the Internet stepped in and became so by doing just that. I think "wealthiest plantation owners" misses the point. Suppose someone were to magically "free" everyone's Facebook data onto some kind of IPFS-like datastore. Now we have symmetric access to our data freed from the bonds of the property model. Now what do we do? Our current understanding of the dangers posed by the mere existence of such a datastore is so limited that symmetric access still wouldn't give us any reliable defense against short or medium-term exploitation. Perhaps "things of an informational nature" should be treated with care until we figure out to make it cost more than $0 for an adversary to turn them into weapons.