Implications of darkness
What did the Web community learn yesterday? Apart from discovering that the Web community has a voice that one cannot easily ignore, there were a few other nuggets in yesterday’s online protest. Some examples:
- Wikipedia is not exclusively in English. (Yes, that fact was known already, but not really appreciated.)
- Online translation reveals a whole new world worth exploring.
- Turning off JavaScript breaks a lot of things.
- The DNS is too important to be controlled by so few. (Maybe the UN should run it?)
- Most people have no idea what the Internet is.
- Most people can’t distinguish between the Internet and the Web.
- IPR is a mess.
- Online data is becoming as important as food, water and oxygen. (OK, an exaggeration but more people are seeing it as important, enough to start claiming it is a basic human right.)
- We have no idea what the Web might do next.
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