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  • Says who? Just because I download a copy of a photo from Getty Images doesn't mean I now own the copyright on it or I can do whatever I want with it. The image needs to be licensed to me, and the terms of the license dictate exactly what I can do with it.

    You can grant federated instances a license to download and display your content without the right to monetize, package it, or distribute it in certain ways. This is what licensing was made for.

    Instance owners can make each other agree to a license before federating.

  • You can't prove any of your assertions. It's all supposition. Meanwhile, history has many examples of corporations doing exactly what people are fearing. Like what Google did to XMPP, and Microsoft did to Kerberos. It's wise to be wary.

    There's even a Wikipedia article on the tactic Microsoft uses: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

    You're taking a realistic possibility and poo-pooing it when you don't know anything about the history of corporations destroying open source standards.

  • It's not always about being decent. Sometimes people doxx themselves by accident, and should be allowed to delete their comments. Especially if they start getting harassed by some nut. Sometimes stalkers can piece together info from old comments.

    If they do delete it and it doesn't make the content irretrievable, I'm not sure they can edit the comment at that point to remove the info. They will now have lost control of it.

    I realize that deleting isn't perfect because of archive sites, screenshots, and whatever else. But at the very basic level, people should be able to actually delete their comments.