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The W3C publishing ethical web principles is like OPEC publishing ethical climate principles.

Who are the members of the W3C?

Google,
Facebook (Meta),
Amazon,
Adobe,
SoftBank,
Yahoo!,
…

The W3C is the standards body of surveillance capitalism.

Ethical principles? W3C? Don’t make me laugh!

If they had any ethics they’d have expelled their most prominent members starting with Google and Facebook.

https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/

#w3c #BigWeb #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #ethics #PR

W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles

The web should be a platform that helps people and provides a positive social benefit. As we continue to evolve the web platform, we must therefore consider the consequences of our work.
www.w3.org
#surveillancecapitalism #ethics #w3c #peoplefarming #PR #BigWeb

When a Free Software project (Profanity) is run by a jackass.

Just did a simple PR that changed a Ellipsis Char that does not display well on Arch Linux TTY (because it is a newer char), to 3 dots. A simple change.

It was not approved (after much time), although, in all the rest of the source code, 3 dots are used (3 dots is used 26 times in the source code). There is only one instance of the Ellipsis char, and it was this that the PR was changing to 3 dots.

https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/pull/1820

#profanity #pr #freesoftware #archlinux #arch #jackass #xmpp #gnu

Use ASCII chars for MAM loading string by alexandre1985 · Pull Request #1820 · profanity-im/profanity

Fix non-ASCII chars, for correct display in TTY UTF-8 personal names are excluded from this fix
GitHub
#FreeSoftware #xmpp #gnu #profanity #arch #archlinux #PR #jackass

Are you serious right now? You do know what Google is, right? You do understand what their business model is? I thought NGI/NLnet was purportedly about finding and supporting *alternatives* to surveillance capitalists like Google, Meta, etc., not trying to improve their PR by perpetuating the myth that they’re generally a force for good who sometimes (often) make silly mistakes.

Do better.

#ngi #nextGenerationInternet #bigTech #google #surveillanceCapitalism #pr #NLnet
#google #nlnet #surveillancecapitalism #bigtech #PR #ngi #nextgenerationinternet

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