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I'm not at all up on my tech politics, but I'm curious about your implication that the W3C is neutral. Is that something we can take for granted, given the way

I'm not at all up on my tech politics, but I'm curious about your implication that the W3C is neutral. Is that something we can take for granted, given the way they went forward with EME[0]? Otherwise, though, I'm inclined to agree. [0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/amid-unprecedented-controversy-w3c-greenlights-drm-web https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/amid-unprecedented-con...

ocdtrekkie 9y ago
I'm definitely not fond of EME, but the W3C's interests go well beyond that of a single corporation. For instance, WICG, which I mentioned, lists three chairs, who are employed by Google, Mozilla, and Akamai respectively. I don't think Mozilla was super fond of EME either, but couldn't afford to be "the web browser that can't watch Netflix". I definitely do remain wary of these groups being forced to rubber stamp things, I do feel Google exerts way too much control even in that space, because due to their monopolies, they can just implement what they want, and sometimes the W3C has to accept it or be irrelevant.