Open letter from EFF to members of the W3C Advisory Committee

Seriously, @doctorow?

I get that you’re passionate about this, but this is the third post in four days:

If you want us to care about this, give us something new. Reply to the W3C’s responses in the other comment threads. Engage with the community, and maybe we’ll listen. Preach at us from a lectern, and you’ll put yourself at the level of every other lectern-preacher on the Internet, and get drowned out by the cacophony.

I want to be convinced, one way or the other, about what constitutes the right future for the web, and the EFF’s side feels like the one I’d like to be on, but when the other side comes on to your message board, explains that you’re misrepresenting their position, and you don’t respond to that; when, instead of engaging, you step back and do more preaching…

What I’m trying to say here, Cory, is that you’re not helping your case.

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