Rhetoric
I'm grappling to find the right word for something. What would you call the W3C EME committee's claim that "EME isn't DRM-in-HTML"?
And I mean, specifically, the problem is that that may be a technically correct statement, but it makes no difference, since EME is a delivery vehicle for DRM. Not the DRM itself.
Is that "doublespeak"? "buck-passing"? "Equivocation?"
It's something; I just need to put my finger on the exact terminology....
And I mean, specifically, the problem is that that may be a technically correct statement, but it makes no difference, since EME is a delivery vehicle for DRM. Not the DRM itself.
Is that "doublespeak"? "buck-passing"? "Equivocation?"
It's something; I just need to put my finger on the exact terminology....
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I'm not sure, but maybe someone at the @Free Software Foundation knows.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-03-23T00:09:45Z
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@Nathan Willis Some resources and points though:
- https://www.defectivebydesign.org/from-the-web-to-the-streets-protesting-drm
- https://media.libreplanet.org/u/zakkai/tag/no-drm-in-web-standards/
- I was one of the people who gave a speech at the DRM rally. I have notes from my speech, though not the excact speech itself (someone did record it though, again, maybe the FSF knows). I could give you a reconstructed version if that's interesting. ("We must not let the W3C become an enemy of itself" seemed to be the line that people liked.)
- Harry Halpin moderated the panel. He made clear that he was acting in his own capacity, and not that of a W3C employee, by doing so. But he did say something interesting, closing off the panel... as a quasiquote: "There are some lines that must not be crossed. Thus, if the W3C adopts EME, I will resign."
I am sure there is a German word that captures it perfectly.
For english "weasel words" spring to mind. Probably not quite what you are after though.
For english "weasel words" spring to mind. Probably not quite what you are after though.
How about the simple "pretending"? Or perhaps "Trojan Horse"? Although that is a bit loaded, but then again...