I have a little bit of skepticism about the move by Google (and you should usually be very skeptical, any time Web standards or Web "security" are talked about,

I have a little bit of skepticism about the move by Google (and you should usually be very skeptical, any time Web standards or Web "security" are talked about, lately), but... The gaudy retro amateur '95 design of this page might suggest the idea "anyone only cares about this for strange nostalgia reasons". Content-wise, I think this argument is missing a key piece: > Why does Google hate XML? > RSS is used to syndicate NEWS and by killing it Google can control the media. XSLT is used worldwide by [multiple government sites](https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11582 https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11582). Google are now trying to control LEGISLATION. With these technologies removed what is stopping Google? Google wanting RSS/Atom dead, presumably for control/profit reasons, is very old news. And it's old news that Big Tech eventually started playing ball with US-style lobbying (to influence legislation) after resisting for a long time. But what does the writer think is Google's motivation for temporarily breaking access to US Congress legislative texts and misc. other gov't sites in this way (as alleged by that `whatwg` issues link)? What do they want, and how does this move advance that? We can imagine conspiracy theories, including some that would be right at home on a retro site with animated GIFs and a request to sign their guestbook, but the author should really spell out what they are asserting.