well, we get the illusion of ownership but we sign it away the moment it’s on someone else’s computer.
Worse, these days when Microsoft reserves the right to scramble your own hard drive if you don’t do something right, we hardly get that. Everything’s rented with no iron-clad promises.
Every generation goes through this now. I feel bad for the Snapchat generation kids; they grew up moving from Tiktok to Snapchat BELIEVING their stuff got deleted after 10 seconds.
They didn’t know that: a) no it doesn’t and b) people screen capture.
It’s almost a horrid rite of passage for GenZ now, the moment they get exposed and shamed at school, only to then go dark online and get paranoid for a year or two in middle school.