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For a company the loves to claim it supports democracy it seems to not really support it unless it gets its way

Lets not conflate voting no to something with hating democracy. If you aren't allowed to vote no, then you dont have a democracy

Ohh Please, W3C was taken over years ago by Google, this is clear showing of that

The fact that it requires unanimous consent to get anything moved forward shows the problem with the organization, and it is something that Google Enjoys

They have their market dominance, if w3c does what they want great, if not Google will do it anyway and if w3c takes up something Google dislikes they will block if even if every other members wants it done.

I am still shocked by the number of Google Defenders there are ... 2021 Google's mantra may as well be "Always do evil"

If it truly becomes an issue, W3C will simply cease to be relevant and a new group will take its place.

For many of the basic standards including HTML, WHATWG has already taken over in relevance (thanks, in no small part, on the strong desire by W3C to actually have two interoperable implementations).

WHATWG is a cooperation between Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft as far as control goes.

W3C is already irrelevant some people just have not realized it yet

The Web is controlled by Google, Full Stop.

There is no "standards" there is Google. This has been shown more than a few times with things that Google Wanted, others opposes but some how the w3c always sides with google... hmmmm I wonder why that is

Nothing will replace it because 85ish Percent of the Browser Market is Chrome or Chromium Based. Chrome, Edge, Brave, <<insert name of your fav chrome clone here>>

I fully expect to see FireFox become chromium based with in the next 5 years.

While everyone was beating IE and Microsoft we surrendered the web to Google and Chrome

it will take a generation to win that back, if ever

These are fair points, and touches on what I was getting at, even if you arrive at a different conclusion - W3C is a standards body, but implementation is up to clients.

Why do you expect Firefox to go Chromium-based? It seems a large part of Firefox's success is that it is an alternative to Google code.

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