[cdoctorow]

I literally came out of retirement to rejoin EFF and fight DRM at the W3C. I managed to get the W3C membership to reject DRM twice, only to be overruled by the executive (the W3C's constitution allows for the director to treat votes as advisory). It was the only time in W3C history that anything remotely like this happened. In the end, EFF publicly resigned from the W3C over it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-direct...

Obviously, I failed. But I did nothing else for four years but fight DRM at the W3C. I wrote op-eds. I personally telephoned every single W3C member's rep to talk to them about this - many times. I published hundreds of articles. I did radio interviews. Podcasts. We organized an in-person protest and picketed a W3C event.

There was never a "day when EFF, Cory Doctorow...kept mum while DRM was being added to the HTML5 spec."

[regs]

I’ve personally been in a room where you were very much not keeping quiet about it!