## what does it mean to be human

What does it mean to be human if we don't have a shared culture? What does a shared culture mean if we can't share it? It's only in the last 100, or 150 years or so, that we started tightly restricting how that culture gets used.

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The Internet enabled an infrastructure where anybody could participate without asking permission. We have all these new technologies that allow people to express themselves, take control of their own creative impulses, but the law's getting in the way.