I think you have a misalignment of expectations. Since the late 90s, almost all public content on the internet has been processed en-masse, cached countless times, and used for the benefit of various for-profit organizations. Copyright can sometimes be enforced, but it depends on the usage.
The whole problem with the current internet is we’ve let things like this happen and just shrugged or thought it’s “kinda cool.” You couldn’t record someone talking in public and openly monetize it, but folks think it’s ok to do the same kind of thing on line. It’s not and never was ok.
Maybe, but you are actively sharing here in a world-accessible platform paid for by others. There is enough mutual benefit that most people are willing to forego fine-grained content distribution rights. The fact that we are here having this conversation is an implicit acceptance of that.
In your analogy, we are not having a conversation in the cafe though. We are writing on the wall of the cafe. Everyone can see it, and we don’t own the wall. If the cafe owners then want to say “Hey, come eat here and see the cool stuff written on our wall,” then they have the right to do that too.
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We’ve ceded so much of our privacy online that we never would offline, and your entire argument is proof of that. And some of us are tired of it.