Proof That Your Digital Identity Ain’t Yours

TL;DR

• X (Twitter) simply confiscated the username @music from its proprietor of 16 years, Jeremy Vaught.

• Ol’ Jez wasn’t a lot the proprietor of the username as a lot as he was a renter.

• In Web3, you get to personal your username throughout all platforms, which could not really feel floor breaking at first look…till you learn tales like this.

Full Story

The ‘cool new perform’ (the CNF, if you’ll) of Web1 was: data all over the place.

The CNF of Web2 was: interplay (posting textual content/pictures/movies/feedback)

The CNF of Web3 is: possession (of our knowledge and digital identities).

With that in thoughts, the subsequent time an inquisitive uncle or curious cousin asks “yeah, however what does ‘possession of a digital id’ really appear to be?” you possibly can level to this story:

X (Twitter) simply confiscated the username @music from its proprietor of 16 years, Jeremy Vaught.

Which isn’t nice – but in addition – completely inside its proper as a personal firm.

What it proves although, is that ol’ Jez wasn’t a lot the proprietor of the username as a lot as he was a renter.

(And what JV did not notice was his ‘rental settlement’ was paid-in-full by his private knowledge – and topic to sudden/quick termination).

You have heard us harp on about this prior to now, however – in Web3, you get to personal your username throughout all platforms, which could not really feel floor breaking at first look…

Till you learn tales like this.