This is for Everyone

Highlights

it was not enough simply to release new technology and hope for the world to improve. You had to develop technology and society together. You really had to fight, in a principled and continuous way, for human rights.

‘When we do usage studies, we typically find that while around 10 per cent of the population needs these services to interact with the web, up to two-thirds of users benefit just from having them available,’

Although we have HTML for documents, and URLs for making links, we have never settled on a standard for the data layer of the web. Instead, we let social media companies manage data for us, surveilling us and turning us into bundled products for advertising.

consider your search engine provider, who knows far more about you than a lawyer would. Instead of negotiating cultural norms to protect this data, we have instead handed it off to a tech monolith to earn profit. Imagine if your lawyer auctioned off your legal documents to the highest bidder! Online, we do this every day.