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Being publicly viewable doesn't make it public domain. We each maintain our copyright. Our posts are our personal intellectual property.
We can't stop them from using them, but that doesn't make them theirs, and it doesn't mean we should just hand them over freely.
If they're going to use them, they can at least make the effort to take them.
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