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There's no such thing as "how the web is supposed to function." There is an ideal that the plurality of the early web once sought to chase. There are more ideal

There's no such thing as "how the web is supposed to function." There is an ideal that the plurality of the early web once sought to chase. There are more ideals that the more commerce-friendly users and creators of the web started to chase. The norm is always shifting. It's our job as technologists to accommodate how people want to use technology, not to tell them that the way they want to use it is wrong. Because if we try to tell them no, then they're going to use the freedoms we labored so hard to give them to stop listening to us.

type0 8y ago
> There are more ideals that the more commerce-friendly users and creators of the web started to chase. What are those? > It's our job as technologists to accommodate how people want to use technology, not to tell them that the way they want to use it is wrong. If some kids wish to use the technology to do DDos attacks it doesn't mean we should build it into the browser, the same is true here. > Because if we try to tell them no, Just say No to this crap, that's all.