The debate is - in essence - about the relationship of an individual to the Internet, and to the various businesses that seek to offer services on the Internet. Some key questions have come into acute focus:
- Who owns, and controls, the information about a person and their relationships to others?
- Who owns and controls the event stream (or attention stream) that results from a users actions inside the services offered by those businesses?
- What rights does an individual have to share their friends list with others?
- What right does an individual have over the event stream they produce through their actions on various web sites?
- What rights does an individual have to share the event streams they consume due to subscribing (through services like FriendFeed and Twitter) to their friends actions?
These are just some of the questions - many get quite specific. Robert Scoble and Mike Arrington had quite a debate over whether or not an email address shared between them on Facebook, could subsequently be put into an email client's address book and used for email.
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