LB: This is another reason we have to build this network as horizontally as possible -- as decentralized as possible -- and build an ethic of curating politically- and economically-acceptable connections that will categorically reject these types of actors. It can be difficult to accurately anticipate them, when you have a corporate silo like Tumblr getting involved right now and it looks fine, but circumstances always evolve, with factors, potentials, and motives you can't always see.
In other words, this whole thing is great, here, but not only are we not done, we have barely even begun: we need to TAKE TRULY POPULAR CONTROL of this network and GUARD IT JEALOUSLY because otherwise corporations will gladly use their overwhelming resources to snatch it away.
