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The international web standards organization W3C is no longer active on X/Twitter and has directed all their followers to Mastodon. (w3c.social)

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[–] dpkonofa 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What’s your issue with the W3C?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They allowed for the inclusion of DRM into HTML5. This DRM is not open-source, can't even be source audited and refused to back down. Such a move caused the EFF (electronic frontier foundation) to resign from the group. Here's the EFF's letter where they outline these issues if you want to give it a read: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership

I could also write about them bowing to Google but the DRM thing annoys me more.

And then Tim Berners-Lee has the audacity to complain about the state of the internet. Something his group could've actually stopped or slowed.