- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:56:41 -0800
- To: "Charles F. Munat" <chas@munat.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 10:58 AM -0800 1/18/02, Charles F. Munat wrote: >You post your page, you are now in the public sphere. And the public >has a right to regulate what you can and cannot do in the public >sphere. That includes telling you what you can do with your web >page, and how you can do it. Yeah! To hell with freedom of expression! If I don't like what Charles Munat puts on his web page, I -- meaning anyone who possibly looks at it -- has the right to ORDER him to take my needs into account! Like, if I go to Charles's page, and it's not what I want it to be, I can demand that he rewrite the page to: (a) Meet my purposes instead of his. For example, maybe my purpose is to determine whether or not he and I are sexually compatible. Information about web standards is not helpful to me in this regard. (b) Provide the information I want to have. His information may be incomplete. If this is the case, I have a right to require him to give me more information -- because I want it. (c) Require him to take down parts of the site that seem to be unnecessary to me. For example, maybe he posts both a picture of his house, and a text description. Tear down that image! Completely worthless AND it clutters the web. And heavens knows we can't have the web being cluttered. (d) Make him get rid of bad things too. After all, we can't be criticizing, for example, governments. This is the type of control that's being suggested, Charles, and the type of control which you are supporting with your vague notions of "public control." The statement was made that the author is not allowed to decide what parts of his content are "essential" and what is not. Once you start deciding that authorial intent doesn't matter and the public has the right to make demands on authorial intent, you pretty much squash any concepts of reasonable expression on the Internet. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Web Accessibility Expert-for-hire http://kynn.com/resume January Web Accessibility eCourse http://kynn.com/+d201 Forthcoming: Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours
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