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2024-01-09T20:47:22Z
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Did you know the W3C published Ethical Principles for how the web should work?https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/I find them so inspiring. And they guide what developers should be doing, too. “The web should empower an equitable, informed and interconnected society. It has been, and should continue to be, designed to enable communication and knowledge-sharing for everyone… we need to consider the ethical implications of our work when we build web technologies, applications, and sites.”
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2024-01-09T20:47:41Z
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2.1 There is one webWhen we are adding new web technologies and platforms, we will build them to cross regional and national boundaries. People in one location should be able to view web pages from anywhere that is connected to the web.
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2024-01-09T20:48:20Z
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2.2 The web should not cause harm to societyWhen we are adding a feature or technology to the web, we will consider what harm it could do to society or groups, especially to vulnerable people. We will prioritize potential benefits for web users over potential benefits to web developers, content providers, user agents, advertisers or others in the ecosystem.
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2024-01-09T20:49:23Z
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2.3 The web must support healthy community and debateWe are building technologies and platforms for distributing ideas, for virtual interaction, and for mass collaboration on any topic… they can also be used for spreading misinformation, revealing private personal information (doxing), harassment, and persecution. We will consider these risks in the work we do, and will build web technologies and platforms that respect individuals' rights and provide features to empower them against dangers
(DIR) Post #AdgWILmDkX4cUdfR6u by jensimmons@front-end.social
2024-01-09T20:50:01Z
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2.4 The web is for all peoplePeople should not need a high level of technical literacy to use the web. Web platform technologies should behave consistently and intuitively. We will build internationalization and localization capabilities into our specifications and websites. We will accommodate people on low bandwidth networks and with low specification equipment.
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2024-01-09T20:50:07Z
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The web platform and the tools we use to create it must be accessible to people with disabilities, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological disabilities. Anyone should be able to meaningfully participate in the creation of specifications, user agents, and content, and the platform should enable a fully accessible end user experience.
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2024-01-09T20:50:18Z
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2.5 The web must be secure, and respect peoples' privacyWhen we add features to the web platform, we are making decisions that may change the ability of people to protect their personal data. This data includes their conversations, their financial transactions and how they live their lives. We will start by creating web technologies that create as few risks as possible, and will make sure people understand what risks they are taking when they use the web.
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2024-01-09T20:50:39Z
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2.6 The web must enable freedom of expressionWe will create web technologies and platforms that encourage free expression, where that does not contravene other human rights. Our work should not enable state censorship, surveillance or other practices that seek to limit this freedom. This principle must be balanced with respect for other human rights, and does not imply that individual services on the web must therefore support all speech.
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2024-01-09T20:50:57Z
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2.7 The web must make it possible for people to verify information and assess the trustworthiness of its source.Society relies on the integrity of public information. We have a responsibility to build web technologies to counter misinformation, and to maintain the integrity of information for public good. The public needs verifiable source and context information to recognize trustworthy web publishers and content.
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2024-01-09T20:57:23Z
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2.8 The web must enhance individuals' control and powerWe recognize that web technologies can be used to manipulate and deceive people, complicate isolation, and encourage addictive behaviors. We seek to mitigate against these potential abuses and patterns… We will also build web technologies for individual developers as well for developers at large companies and organizations. The web should enable do-it-yourself developers.
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2024-01-09T20:58:46Z
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2.9 The web must be an environmentally sustainable platformWeb technologies may have overall positive environmental impacts as well as negative impacts, and these can change over time and vary geographically as both web and environmental technologies develop. We will endeavor not to do further harm to the environment when we introduce new technologies to the web…
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2024-01-09T20:58:57Z
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2.10 The web is transparentThe web was built on a "view source" principle, currently realized through robust developer tools built into many browsers. We will always make sure it is possible to determine how a web application was built and how the code works. Furthermore, we will always make sure it is possible to audit and inspect web applications and underlying software for security, privacy or other considerations.
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2024-01-09T20:59:38Z
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2.11 The web is multi-browser, multi-OS and multi-deviceWe will not create web technologies that encourage the creation of websites that work only in one browser, or only on particular hardware. We expect that content provided by accessing a URL should yield a thematically consistent experience when someone is accessing it from different devices. The existence of multiple interoperable implementations enables competition, and thus a variety of choices for web users.
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2024-01-09T20:59:53Z
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2.12 People should be able to render web content as they wantPeople must be able to change web pages according to their needs. For example, people should be able to install style sheets, assistive browser extensions, and blockers of unwanted content or scripts or auto-played videos. We will build features and write specifications that respect peoples' agency, and will create user agents to represent those preferences on the web user's behalf