[mnot]

Today, a group of technical experts involved in the development and maintenance of the Internet and the Web, including Vint Cerf (Internet pioneer) and Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web), published an open letter calling on the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General and the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology to "uphold the bottom-up, collaborative and inclusive model of Internet governance that has served the world for the past half century" as part of the upcoming Global Digital Compact (GDC).

[impossiblefork]

I think it's questionable whether they really have.

Especially the openness and bottom-up character of the W3C. They wanted closed source DRM running on people's computers despite presumably strong opposition from the bulk of the ordinary members, and then it got pushed through, and who knows what's in that software.

It's better than Chat Control I suppose, but it's the same sort of thing, i.e. foreign software doing who-knows-what running on a user device.

[hulitu]

Today it is far too late.