An idea to kick things off:
Expel all surveillance capitalists from the W3C.
Here are some off the top of my head that are actively working with authoritarian regimes to destroy human rights and democracy to start you off with:
• Amazon
• Oracle
• Meta
• Google
• Microsoft
• IBM
• Softbank
Thoughts?
At the @ab , me and @torgo have written “Further Aligning W3C's Program of Technical Work with Human Rights” that proposes more things we can do to consider human rights in W3C work.w3.org/TR/furthering-human-rig…
Some of these have already started, like the community group. w3.org/groups/cg/threats-and-h…
Threats and Harms Community Group
W3CThis group's purpose is to develop documentation around threats and harms related to societal impacts and Human Rights issues, outside the scope of other areas already addressed by other W3C groups, such as Accessibility, Privacy, Security, Intern…
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •The important thing to realize is that billionaire level wealth creates a class of individuals and individuals who own corporations that have their own geopolitical agenda. They have no interest in democracy or marketplaces.
Their goal is totalitarian power
Jonathan Lamothe
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