I don't understand this sentiment. It implies that an arbitrary web developer, who has never met someone, knows better how the want to portray that person, than

I don't understand this sentiment. It implies that an arbitrary web developer, who has never met someone, knows better how the want to portray that person, than that person themselves. It also feels very anti-hacker to me. A core ethos across open source software is that each user should be in charge of how their software behaves, should they choose to be. That includes the lowly "average person" who is not a web developer.