Berners-Lee was brought up as a rejoinder to various decision makers who originally agreed to implement it, being that the www is more original than twitter, and fwiw he's not an American.

It's quite exasperating to find someone arguing that there is some benefit to regression towards applications which don't link into other applications. Why be on the web at all?

You haven’t addressed the question.

Why does it matter what he thinks or thought about this or that topic?

Opinions can’t suddenly transmute into facts, regardless of anyone that has ever existed in human history.

If someone limits your options to only two, or even one source of resources, are you better off?

This discussion thread emerged from the suggestion of "maybe that's a good thing." Is it?

It's a question of trust, competition, and whether there's so much destruction of honest competition that only the destructive and twisted competition remains, keeping people afraid to venture into the unknown, willing to perpetuate the cycle of destroying competitors and endangering civilization itself.

How does this relate to the prior comment?

A walled garden can protect, or it can enslave. Eye of the beholder. This thread was about creating a walled garden by downranking external links.

This comment is so deep in the comment chain that it makes no sense to talk generally about this when the thread starting comments are available for you to reply too…

Take it to one of the parent comments.

Are we not talking about opinion vs opinion ? What twitter engineers think is good for twitter vs what web engineers think is good for the web ? I don't really follow what your assertion is, I would be happy to elaborate my position if you elaborate yours.

I’m not going to compare the relative merits of one set opinion vs another set of opinions…

Because there is no end to that and my time is valuable.

Sorry for wasting your time my dude feel free to send me an invoice

Intentionally trolling is only going to get you banned…

If you want to do that, and burn your account, go ahead. I’m not going to stop you.

> How can your opinion outweigh that of the various decision makers who originally agreed to implement it?