RE: [projectvrm] Google and VRM

["Crosbie Fitch" < >]

> From: Adriana Lukas
> And in the meantime, in the real world as they say, 
> Facebook's new TOS:
> 
> http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-
> we-can-do-anything-we-want-with-your-content-forever

This is actually a pretty enlightened principle. All that remains is for the
customers to adopt this concerning Facebook's content too.

As long people are honest and kind to each other, they should be free to
share and build upon the knowledge they receive in their exchanges. If
trusted to maintain confidence, then any indiscretions may have social
consequences for individuals' reputations, but that's the way it's always
been and should remain. 

If Facebook are betraying their users' past confidences, then Facebook's
reputation may well take a nosedive. That's Facebook's lookout. However,
being an immortal corporation and impacted by such consequences in a manner
unlike mortal individuals either warrants that no individual ever trusts a
corporation, or that corporations should be specially regulated (with
consequences for their shareholders).