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by logicalmonster 1559 days ago
Can we acknowledge that there’s more than 1 important competing “socially good” value that’s in conflict with your prescription?

Your prescription is a large step towards the death of what portion of the free and open web still exists. Just saying “build your business website on some default storefront or walled-garden by Facebook, Amazon, Shopify, or some other mega corporation’s platform and don’t change 1 line of code or risk legal obliteration” is close to a death sentence for an independent web.

Is it not valid to point out that doing our best to maintain an independent web is also an important value as well for the world, for disabled people, and future generations?

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Inaccessibility can prevent a person from getting a job, or cause a person to lose their job if the requirements for that job change (I've seen it happen). What is the equivalent personal cost of further centralizing the web?
It is not valid to say that the value of an open web trumps the value of people being able to use the open web.