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Ansel Halliburton
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Law technology & technology law. In-house trademark lawyer. Free Law Project (@free.law) board. Building in #LegalTech since 2006. Making derpy from-scratch robots for fun. @Obsidian.md nerd. DM for Signal.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Well, it's unawareness in the sense that bullshitting is different than lying. He does not *care* about ethics limitations. He would not follow them regardless of knowing about them or not.
December 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Yes, but also tell us what you're looking for 😀
December 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Weirdly enough, one of the two co-authors is from Google!
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I'm not holding my breath, but still, it's bracing to see the truth written this plainly, and it's an artifact humanist technologists can cite with honor :)
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Today, all the most popular browsers are funded and built by either an ad tech company or a wannabe ad tech company (www.mozilla.org/en-US/advert...), making this statement of principle nearly heretical. I'm beyond delighted to see it. Here's to more web user agents by and for humans.
December 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The "Loyalty" principle says:

"A user agent must serve its user’s interests over its implementer’s interests and over the interests of any other party."
December 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The draft enumerates three specific duties:
1. Protection
2. Honesty
3. Loyalty
These are all important, but to me, the most interesting (and radical) one is Loyalty.
December 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
You should, quite obviously, be fired.
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I ran across this W3C Editor's Draft yesterday, and it has some really surprising *bangers* about user agents *owing duties* to their *human* principals. All is not lost! w3ctag.github.io/user-agents/
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Uhhh
October 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM