TL;DR
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X (Twitter) just confiscated the username @music from its owner of 16 years, Jeremy Vaught.
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Ol’ Jez wasn’t so much the owner of the username as much as he was one tenant.
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In Web3, you get your username across all platforms, which may not seem groundbreaking at first glance…until you read stories like this.
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Web1’s “cool new feature” (the CNF, if you will) was: information everywhere.
Web2’s CNF was: interaction (posting text/photos/videos/comments)
Web3’s CNF is: ownership (of our data and digital identities).
With that in mind, the next time a nosy uncle or nosy cousin asks, “Yeah, but what does ‘ownership of a digital identity’ actually look like?” you can point to this story:
X (Twitter) just confiscated the username @music from its owner of 16 years, Jeremy Vaught.
That’s not great – but also – absolutely within its right as a private company.
However, what it proves is that the old Jez isn’t so much the owner of the username as much as he was one tenant.
(And what JV didn’t realize was that his ‘rental’ was paid in full by his personal data – and subject to sudden/immediate termination).
You’ve heard us harping on about this in the past, but – in Web3 you get your username across all platforms, which might not seem groundbreaking at first glance…
Until you read stories like this.