Technically, you own your tweets, but by using the service you grant Twitter full rights to do whatever they want with your content in order to profit from it. From your perspective, it makes no difference, but from the company's perspective, it benefits them more this way.
Libertarians talk about "self ownership", but my boss owns my labor, my landlord owns my apartment, and twitter owns this fucking tweet. Unless production, housing, and infrastructure are public, property owners get to carve up every meaningful part of you. You don't own shit.
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I'm not trying to be a smartass. I thought about this a lot when I worked at Google and realized how much YouTube is an exploitation of labor, including of the musicians whose royalties have dropped through the floor when their songs are streamed. It's all very carefully crafted.
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"Buy your own house" - The bank owns it until you pay off your loans. "Start a business" - Unless you are already wealthy, your small business will likely be owned by initial investors. "Write a personal blog" - That blog will be owned by whatever webservice you use.
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"Self owns" are the only ownership they have a legitimate claim too.
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You've voluntarily sold your labor to your boss. Or do you work for free? Might want to reconsider if you do.
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Being forced to sell your labour for less than it's worth at the threat of poverty sounds very voluntary.
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The concept of "self ownership" basically just means that the ones who own everything have to use fancier terms than "slave" to refer to you
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