RT @ Dear Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web Consortium: Re: Keep DRM out of Web standards — Reject the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) proposal As a middle aged mother, I’ve been learning (and sharing what I’ve learned) about net neutrality, the importance of free software, free culture, nd an open Internet, ever since I began hand coding my own HTML web pages and participating on the Internet in 2009. As a creator from a creative family, as well as publishing my own content online, I run a blog for my eighty three year old father. I have come to consider myself a netizen. One reason DRM is dangerous is that it can hide all manner of spyware and malware from users. Another is that most people don’t even know what it is, or if they do, how to recognize it. While governments have allowed large corporations and media conglomerates to cripple digital products with DRM, there is no requirement anywhere in the world to to inform customers or computer users of such application. I have avoided DRM wherever possible, but even with the absurd extension of copyright laws, I have be…