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by impossiblefork 717 days ago
I think it's questionable whether they really have.

Especially the openness and bottom-up character of the W3C. They wanted closed source DRM running on people's computers despite presumably strong opposition from the bulk of the ordinary members, and then it got pushed through, and who knows what's in that software.

It's better than Chat Control I suppose, but it's the same sort of thing, i.e. foreign software doing who-knows-what running on a user device.