- From: Bob Wyman <bob@wyman.us>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 15:32:40 -0500
- To: public-credibility@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAA1s49XzwSpE6B3pjxm4iJkN9qNsKt8pFVUZGu2UKYuaRm9B4Q@mail.gmail.com>
If "the mission of the W3C Credible Web Community Group is to help *shift the Web toward more trustworthy content without increasing censorship or social division*" then why, during a period when issues with web credibility have never been more urgent, nor more broadly discussed, has this group remained silent? In just the United States, since the November 2020 elections, we've seen the web exploited to distribute lies and assertions that contributed both to creating and amplifying social divisions which have weakened the foundations of the US system of government and that helped to motivate and justify a shocking attack on the US Capitol and Congress. Since the election, we've seen a growing chorus calling for private companies and "algorithms" to engage in censorship which would achieve through private government that which our public government is, and should be, constitutionally prohibited from imposing. And, we have seen private companies act in response to those calls... Through all this, CredWeb has been silent... Why isn't this mailing list ablaze with calls to action, analyses of the problem, and proposals to address it? Is it the opinion of this group's members that all that can be done has been done? If so, do you really believe that there is nothing more that can be offered by technological means to "shift the web toward more trustworthy content?" Would discussion of these issues and their potential solutions be welcomed here? If this is not the forum for the discussion of issues related to credibility of web content, then what is the correct forum for such discussions? bob wyman
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