Articulate how we will learn from the harms of the web

[wareid]

The paragraph describing the harms doesn’t transition well into the remainder of the document. We need a sentence/statement between to explain one very important thing: we were naive about how the world would use the technologies we developed. We now know that there are important consequences to how standards are developed, and with open eyes to those consequences, we move forward by [rest of vision document].

Also we don’t guide the entirety of the web, we produce application-layer standards that facilitate the distribution, formatting, and structure of web content, we can’t fix every problem, but we can ensure that within our purview we attempt to limit harm whenever we can.

[michaelchampion]

Issue #13, which references the previous repo's issue WebStandardsFuture/Vision#21 has suggested text that might be useful here. For example,

W3C should invest in research / align with external researchers on "post-mortems" of how web technology and culture was exploited by bad actors.

Aspire to get something like the Privacy Threat Model to maturity and use those criteria to evaluate specs as they proceed on the Rec Track

Build credible policy guidance, analogous to WCAG, and encourage governments to reference the guidelines created by an international, multi stakeholder process. For example see this New York Times editorial ”All of this is why federal legislation is so urgently needed. That should include provisions making personal data collection available only with consumers’ prior consent. …If American consumers want more targeted advertising, or wish to freely share other personal data, they can choose to do so, rather than trust that companies have their best interests in mind.