tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35360257.post5520931740865660994..comments2024-01-25T07:53:27.067-05:00Comments on Thinking Space: Questioning Facebook's New Terms of ServiceYihong Dinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08410466834942147505noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35360257.post-26698156941174715132009-02-17T07:17:00.000-05:002009-02-17T07:17:00.000-05:00francois,sharing is a form of giving away. It is a...francois,<BR/><BR/>sharing is a form of giving away. It is a form of giving away knowledge. It does not, however, necessarily mean giving away "the control of my knowledge". They are two different concepts.<BR/><BR/>Let us take them in this way. You publish a Web page. Since this page becomes public, everybody can read and maybe write and use the knowledge in this page. Therefore, you give away the knowledge for the public to use.<BR/><BR/>At the same time, however, you are still the owner of the page. Whenever you delete the page. The knowledge is gone. You do not give away the control of the knowledge.<BR/><BR/>May the others copy your page and store it in another place. It depends. But if it contains your sensitive information such as the network of your friends or your valuable intellectual property such as thoughtful blog posts, you do not want them to copy everything, or at least do not want them to copy everything without referencing to your original site. Now when you decide that you want to delete the account of the original site, you do not want any of the reference or copy to point to the reference site too because no matter whatever, these resources are what you have produced. Unless you truly do not care of totally giving them away, they should/must belong to you. They are shared freely, but you should still own the control whether they are shareable any longer at any time.<BR/><BR/>This issue is a combination of intellectual property and privacy.<BR/><BR/>YihongYihong Dinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08410466834942147505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35360257.post-24710656634866072062009-02-17T03:10:00.000-05:002009-02-17T03:10:00.000-05:00Not sure I understand your point. Once you have sh...Not sure I understand your point. Once you have <I>shared</I> your knowledge over the net, do you want to still own it in the same way as before? Isn't sharing a form of giving away?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947084274948486549noreply@blogger.com