Let's make it a game to figure out the insane overreach #Bluesky are attempting.
Hint directly from their Terms of Service (https://staging.bsky.app/support/tos):
a. "...website located at bsky.social (“Site”), [AND!] the Authenticated Transfer [AT] social protocol (“Protocol”)"
b. "...our Site, Protocol, and App... are collectively called the “Services.”"
c. "By making any User Content available through the Services, you hereby grant to Bluesky..."
Any guesses?
Nobody? OK, here's another hint to the insane overreach #Bluesky are attempting.
Hint #2 comes from alternative history:
Back in 1974 technology pioneer Robert Metcalfe at Xerox PARC developed the Ethernet PROTOCOL upon which the internet is based. Astutely, Xerox Terms of Service included an irrevocable, non-exclusive, perpetual, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free license any data sent over the Ethernet protocol. Which is why Xerox now effectively co-owns everything.
OK, still looking for the answer to the insane overreach #Bluesky are attempting.
Hint #3:
"The AT Protocol is a networking technology created by Bluesky to power the next generation of social applications." (https://atproto.com/)
OK, it's getting late, so here is the insane overreach that #Bluesky are attempting:
Not only do their Terms of Service grant them a limitless, free-for-all, forever license to all your content for using their application (Bluesky). They are taking, get this, a limitless, free for all, forever license for anything that touches their AT protocol. And they imagine a future where all social media runs on their protocol. Isn't that rich?
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