Do you think you might be being a touch reductive there? Perhaps ignoring factors like context, medium, the economic realities of who makes this “data” and who ends up making money off of it at their expense, the difference between mechanically harvesting data because it’s there and internalizing things through the lens of your mind and existence and making it your own… you know… pretty much everything about it except the razor thin slice of the situation you’re choosing to take into consideration? Any complex and nuanced situation can become cut-and-dried if you ignore enough.
ideas are there to inspire and to freely go from one to the next and evolve.
this ownership fantasy people have of knowledge and ideas is a deteriment to human progress.
its a new thing. not an old thing. and its only there for people to take money of others.
do you realy think its a good thing? its a large part of what makes so many people poor and hungry in the world.