Just trying to read the article I was rejected from 3 IP addresses by their junk-yard dog "Wordfence". And I didn't like the overly upbeat tone of it. So yes, t

Just trying to read the article I was rejected from 3 IP addresses by their junk-yard dog "Wordfence". And I didn't like the overly upbeat tone of it. So yes, the statement seems full of parochial self-congratulation for those "in the club". Please, the "ultimate tool of resilience" was mRNA and the extraordinary efforts of biologists. It was hospital staff who died working 18 hour days without PPE. This narrative that "technology saved us" in the pandemic is cute, but also puff and bluster. We're still dealing with the equal and opposite effect of web technologies in spreading anti-vac messages and conspiracy theory. The winners were Google and Amazon. Not "the web". The paragraph "A web for everyone" pays lip service to acknowledging that "an estimated 37 percent of the world’s population lacks web access". Yet effectively shrugging responsibility for stewardship onto Google, a for-profit company bent on eliminating privacy and dignity online, isn't a good look for W3C. It hides another reality, the one in which the pandemic showed our normative reliance on Web technology is itself a form of irresilience. Our world is precarious in the absence of other parallel and supporting technologies, of offline, radio, good public transport, functional (healthy not overcrowded) physical community spaces, reliable mail service, stable electricity supply and much more. There's a reality in which some people with unequal access to digital technology suffered more than if other social measures had been taken. Those with older phones and computers, the wrong browser, not enough money for bandwidth and those in rural areas were all marginalised. Those who value privacy and don't wish to lay their lives at the feet of a few giant tech corporations. The "Web saved us from the pandemic" story makes it easier and more acceptable to exclude marginal groups within our own society.