Continued Thoughts on Data Ownership and the Carrier System

To extend the previous post on AT&T's new policy on data ownership... I feel as though events and conventions such as these are increasingly archaic - rooted in the paper-based paradigm of yesterday. This [policies such as these] are what should be instantly noticed as 'not good at all' and rejected by an increasingly informed and empowered public. Parallels can be drawn in the [quickly changing] media publishing world—as giants controlling artists—content creators—output. Strict seperation is necessary between the pipelines and what flows through them. Obviously, the pipeline daemons [read: carriers] are a: scared of being sued, b: want more control and power [as gained from a certain ammount of ownership in what goes on in 'their system']. If anything, government access should not be something the carriers and gatekeepers should be able to give—but something inherent, transparent, and dumb.