Assuming that the web will continue to evolve instead of getting crushed underfoot, there is some interesting work going on over at the IETF about how to build on the now aged robots.txt protocol to allow rights holders to express how their content can be used online:
@chpietsch yes, I guess you could look at it as naive. In many ways robots.txt was naive too. But one aspect to this is that we need ways for rights holders to assert their wishes, so that courts in jurisdictions that care (e.g. the EU) can use them as evidence. And there needs to be more nuance than what robots.txt provides:
I haven't really been paying attention to the news so I actually found this NYT article about DeepSeek somewhat helpful. Especially this:
> ... the impressive performance of the DeepSeek model raised questions about the unintended consequences of the American government’s trade restrictions. The controls have forced researchers in China to get creative with a wide range of tools that are freely available on the internet.
It has happened before, but it is astonishing how the whitehouse.gov website can be completely gutted during a change of administration. If you have linked to anything on there it might be worth considering updating to point at a web archive. Here's an example:
@alex For some community archiving work [1] I've been helping evaluate ipfs-cluster for adding/deleting pins (files) amongst a group of collaborators. I do find myself worrying about overcommitting to IPFS because even after all these years it doesn't seem to get used by many in actual production systems. But maybe that's not fair.
@alex we have been focused on getting static site exports out of dynamic web applications, and onto ipfs-cluster where they can then be replicated amongst friendly organizations. But really the harder part so far has been, like you said, the social governance part.
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