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As consumer choice proliferates, people will rely even more on online reviews to inform their decisions. Reviews are an increasingly powerful tool and valuable source of insight for individuals and businesses alike. The potential for innovation would be multiplied by orders of magnitude compared to the current state in which only a small number of engineers have access to such data, partitioned across several silos. The opportunities arising to create new products and technologies will only be open to those with access to the data, threatening free market competition, and possibly even free will.