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W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles
https://w3ctag.github.io/ethical-web-principles/
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An alternative framing for the harms section #126

Open martinthomson opened 5 months ago

martinthomson commented 5 months ago

In looking at Robin's edits in #123, I was inspired to write something different.

It retains the same basic idea, but tries to avoid some of the hedging language.

That said, hedging is essential here. We're talking about evolutions to the web here and any change comes with consequences, just as not changing does. No action at this scale avoids harms, but we have a framework within which we can make these decisions in the priority of constituencies.