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   "text": "Personal data, preferences, and opinions can only be limitedly commercialized inside centralized structures, whereas in decentralized structures the same assets can be tokenized, valued, and mobilized, including in real time.",
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   "text": "Web 2.0 companies solved the hosting problem through a Faustian bargain: free hosting is exchanged for access to shared content, ownership of viewers' personal information, control over what may be shared, and access to user attention.",
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