"History shows us that all progress comes from the meeting of diverse people, with different ideas, and different backgrounds." The web is no different.
07 Dec 2025 — 1 min read
I’m not sure exactly who sparked off Terence Eden’s post, but his remarks are completely on point.
“The beauty of the web as a platform is that it isn’t a monoculture.
That’s why it baffles me that some prominent technologists embrace hateful ideologies. I’m not going to give them any SEO-juice by linking to them, but I cannot fathom how someone can look at the beautiful diversity of the web and then declare that only pure…
"History shows us that all progress comes from the meeting of diverse people, with different ideas, and different backgrounds." The web is no different.
07 Dec 2025 — 1 min read
I’m not sure exactly who sparked off Terence Eden’s post, but his remarks are completely on point.
“The beauty of the web as a platform is that it isn’t a monoculture.
That’s why it baffles me that some prominent technologists embrace hateful ideologies. I’m not going to give them any SEO-juice by linking to them, but I cannot fathom how someone can look at the beautiful diversity of the web and then declare that only pure-blooded people should live in a particular city.”
He makes great points about the fault-tolerant nature of web technology, but I’d also add that the web is inherently inclusive at a conceptual level too: the whole point of the thing is to allow anyone to publish. That means a plurality of publishers from a plurality of backgrounds. “This is for everyone,” Tim Berners-Lee famously said, and he meant it.
As it is for the web, so it should be for the world. We are all better off for being around people whose backgrounds are different to our own. As I write this, I’m sat in New York City, truly one of the greatest cities in the world, which wouldn’t be a fraction of itself without the kaleidoscope of backgrounds, cultures, and contexts that make it home. The same is true of London and so many amazing places. Humans ebb; we flow; we connect. Those are the fundamental building blocks of human society. To build walls is to be anti-human.
You can’t effectively work on the web and not be in favor of that vision. To be against that is to be afraid of people, to say that only a few are good enough, or to hide in a monoculture and never venture outside its walls. I don’t think you can be a decent human being and take that position, but this is particularly true on the web. It’s made of inclusion. It’s for the whole world. If you can’t embrace that, I don’t know what you’re doing with it.
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