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When posting a link to the @w3c Ethical Web Principles, please also make sure to link to their members page so we can all see the list of exemplary corporations that adhere to these excellent principles (Meta, Google, TikTok, UnitedHealth, etc.) :

w3.org/membership/list/

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Albert Cardona
Albert Cardona
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Isn't it a bit like in the United Nations: at least they are at the table speaking to each other? Consider the alternative. Yes I know this falls very short of ideal.
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@albertcardona Yes, it’s just like when we had Saudi Arabia on the UN Human Rights Council or when we hold COP events in petrostates: it attempts to legitimise the bad actors. The alternative is to not do that.
@Albert Cardona
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Albert Cardona
Albert Cardona
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Here, if absurdly large tech companies decided to make a new browser with a new web standard, they would distort the whole internet. Keeping them at the table can at least attempt to prevent that.

Something else is breaking them up, they are de facto monopolies and are far too powerful. A company should never have a valuation larger than a mid-size country's GDP, because then it's not a company any more.

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Rémi Letot
Rémi Letot
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noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild… @w3c

We Need To Rewild The Internet

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
NOEMA
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VulcanTourist
VulcanTourist
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Also make sure to send a big thanks to Tim Berners-Lee for making it his life's work to defend those ethics for all mankind. </sarcasm>
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a fish named dog
a fish named dog
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Airbnb, Baidu, Etherium (crypto), Kaiser Permanente (healthcare that is slightly less sucky than United Healthcare, by which I mean it's a mile-high mountain of shit rather than a mile-and-a-half-high mountain of shit), Microsoft...
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