# W3C as a guardian of the world wide web

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**Created:** [August 15, 2026, 10:13am UTC](https://corsairsoscorsairs.discourse.group/t/w3c-as-a-guardian-of-the-world-wide-web/18 "2026-08-15T10:13:04Z")\
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> **[W3C](https://www.w3.org/)**
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> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.

If Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, IBM are the funding agencies of this organisation, to what extent can we trust it to maintain a free world wide web ??