early on, one of the big tenants of colonialism was that any land being used by some other group was free to be taken so long as those using it weren’t using it “properly” ie “improving it” (maximizing profit). The most notable argument for this comes from John Locke.

This defined a lot of the English and later UK interactions with the highland Scott’s, the Irish plantations, and the settler colonialism of the US and Canada.

You’re not using this resource and labor to serve, pursue, and create more capital, so you are using it wrong, and thus we who will use it properly are entitled to take it. The fact that you can’t stop us from doing so only proves this, since if you were using it properly, you could afford to fight us off.

This feels a lot like that. Like, colonialism but targeted not at resources and land, but at leisure and creativity. You’re not monetizing this, so we, the business idiots who own the data centers, are justified in taking it to monetize, the fact that you can’t stop this proves you should have monetized it to pay for ways to stop us.

It’s time to unleash the Sonic fandom.

Every request will end with “OCDonutSteel”, and that will only be the beginning.