Hey nonprofiter, why do I still require your permission to address my anime website on my Japanese connection?

If you want Domain Names to be unique, you need some organ to coordinate that. Doesn't have to be about permission, but if I use the same name as someone else, the URI is no longer U and loses all value.

That doesn't have to be about permission. Ideally, any unclaimed domain could be claimed by anyone (with a possible exception for things like important government domains). You'd just need some organisation to keep a registry and mediate disputes when someone tries to claim that your domain is theirs and they'd like to have it redirect to their site.

What is the “public interest” in his view of “like-minded activists”

I can't read their minds and haven'tread his book, but I'd say the rest makes it sound like they want to democratise it and harden it against corporate control. Why, do you have any indication to the contrary or are you just throwing accusations?

he didn't design the web with the blindl in mind.

Isn't that basically an implementation issue? Like, sure, text isn't ideal for people who can't read, but that hardly precludes using it to encode information that some other tools could turn into non-visual formats, nor does it prevent the development of other protocols designed for different content forms than text, as I'm sure you're aware.

I know I had to learn a whole course about web content accessibility guidelines to make it as easy as possible for people with cognitive, visual or motoric impairments to navigate and use websites, including accommodation for tools like screen readers, making sure table columns and headers are unambiguously associated (even with things like floating headers when you scroll).

It's not like the medium is actively hostile to blind people. It's just that a discrete data storage and transmission formats lend themselves well to discrete information like symbols. I don't know what more you would have expected of him.

I know he didn't design the web with the silenced in mind.

Again, I'm not sure that's an issue on part of the Web. Yes, HTTP by itself has no encryption (which HTTPS added later) or obfuscation of sender and recipient (which is a routing issue, not a content one), and DNS isn't immune to censorship by providers selectively refusing to resolve certain domains they want to see blocked. At some level, there will always be the human factor.

But you're just sounding like "He didn't perfectly account for everything, so he's an elitist fuck who hates freedom". By that metric, literally every human is a piece of shit, because none of us are perfect, which makes it a useless metric.

I know he didn't he design the web with kilobytes in mind.

Okay now you're taking the piss.

where is Tim’s OpenNic TLD?

Idk, how should I know? But also, why would he need one? Is using one particular service a requirement for championing its cause? Should he have one just to show it off?

Or should he, you know, spend his time and energy trying to raise awareness and devising a way to unfuck things, however and whyever it got fucked up?

Or is he nor pure enough?