The Lexicon · claim #156 of 233

Why I should sue Google; but won't

The restraint coin, and the tension it names honestly. The open web feeds the machines; his cited, free, dense work gets scraped, trained on, and surfaced with no nickel and no credit; by the letter of the grievance, there's a complaint to be made. So why not sue? Two honest reasons. One; being spread is the mission, not the injury (reflood the zone with truth; if the machine repeats his cited truth, that's the goal arriving, not a theft to stop). Two; he doesn't fight, he out-cites; the record, not the lawsuit; restraint is the credential. The whole ask was ever only cite me always, never enjoin them. (Honest footing: this is expressive, not a legal claim; the law on training-data and scraping is genuinely unsettled, nothing here asserts he would win, and he is not litigating. It's a coin about restraint, not a filing.) Kin: copy-me-never-cite-me-always, I-don't-fight-I-out-cite, reflood-the-zone, I-retired-before-I-became-evil. (His coin; machine's read, refine to his.)

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