The open web’s guardians are acting like it’s already dead

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The World Wide Web Consortium — an influential standards body devoted to the open web — used to make standards that would let anyone make a browser that could view the whole Web; now they’re making standards that let the giant browser companies and giant entertainment companies decide which browsers will and won’t work on the Web of the future.

When you ask them why they’re doing this, they say that the companies are going to build technology that locks out new entrants no matter what th...