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Re:No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019) by matheusmoreira on Saturday September 11, 2021 @03:13PM (#28494943)
> Whose idea was it to assert this level of control over written material

The real mistake was giving web developers the power to do this in the first place. It was meant to help usability by preventing selection of things that weren't meant to be selected.

Of course the first thing people did instead was abuse it in order to protect "their content".

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