>I agree with everything you said except for the crap about the Winklevoss twins. If you come up with idea of something to do on the web you really don't own that idea. Anyone can come up with ideas. Building it, building it well, running it well and marketing it are 99% of the effort. Doesn't having a connection to the CIA help. Yes. But then its owed to that and the Winklevoss's are irrelevant. Did they also have the idea of going to the CIA? because that seems to be what made it successful and has 99% of the value even looking only ideas. > Everyone having a page you can visit and write on is a Winklevoss idea? Myspace was already doing that. Yes ideas are air and not really worth anything, but Kikerberg didn't just steal an idea, he stole a prototype with working code. That's why the Winklevoss twins got a fucking fat undisclosed settlement from ZOGbook. They wouldn't have got shit if it was just an idea that Kikerberg stole. From what I understand they had a prototype, brought Kikerberg on to help work on it and get it towards a final product state, he took it and ran and by the time they realized that it was already starting to gain traction (within universities only) so it wouldn't have worked to spin up a competitor using their existing codebase. As for whether it would be popular without the CIA's funding and media-boosting of ZOGbook, that's an unknown we can only speculate on. For the question of whether the Winklevoss twins were going to go with CIA's plans for ZOGbook, I doubt it, they don't seem like the type, they seem to be normie libertarian types overall.