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@aral It's a small thing, but it caught my attention that this is under the repo of an individual contributor, not an "official" google account.

Shameful? I think so.

@chrisg Yeah, they probably want it to look more grassroots or some other optics bs. Four Googlers on the authors; entirely aligned with Google’s business model, something tells me this isn’t a personal project :)

PS. My favourite issue so far: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues/103

@aral Closed as completed? Looks like a won't fix to me.

@chrisg @aral

The issue tracker was filled with issues mocking this proposal or arguing against it, this morning a helluva lot of them were closed by the person in charge (it seems), who proceeded to post this: https://blog.yoav.ws/posts/web_platform_change_you_do_not_like/

Essentially dismissing off hand any ethical concerns and that any proposal should be technical, when the fact is that the very core of the idea is rotten. It reads very much as "don't criticize us, just help us build this electric fence around the web"

@jherazob @chrisg @aral

I like how he pretends to ignore that “Fuck you and your unethical ides” *is* the signal, not the noise.

@chrisg Yeah, it’s scary what a six-figure salary and stock options can do to a person’s head.

@oblomov @jherazob

@aral

Absolutely true. I'm not trying to be all holy here, btw. I won't pretend that I wouldn't act similarly if my livelihood depended on it.

That's why, of course, these people bare a small part of the responsibility. Not zero, but small.

@oblomov @jherazob