I get where that's coming from – I've run Linux since the mid-90s, along with other rarely supported systems like BeOS and OS/2 – but … how many people does this actually affect? Linux on the desktop remains a small minority and the percentage of Linux desktop users who are unwilling to use Chrome is even smaller.
Again, I don't love DRM but we need a reason for a significant number of people to care. We've had a couple decades for angry nerds ranting on the Internet to show results and it's hard to say that we've done anything. The one area where DRM was rolled back is music and that was a combination of widespread unencumbered CDs and, mostly, Steve Jobs scaring the music labels more than piracy.
We need a better approach to avoid repeating that cycle of failure again. Most people think Netflix is good – what's going to make them decide to cancel their subscription?
> We've had a couple decades for angry nerds ranting on the Internet to show results and it's hard to say that we've done anything.
I'd actually argue that we have. Sure, a lot of the mp3 stuff was Jobs, but I'd argue that the game was changed so that we can't do the same with mp3s. We downloaded mp3s, but we stream movies. Now, I think streaming is superior in many ways, and I'm not bashing it, but it did change the game.
Free software is becoming more and more common. Sure, it moves slower than proprietary software, but I'd argue that's a feature, not a bug. We now have MS open-sourcing a lot of stuff, and including bash in their stack. Apple is trying to become more open, and focus more on privacy. Linux is getting more games than ever.
I really view this new DRM scheme as a desperate attempt from a dying industry. And I do think eventually we'll look back, thinking it was absurd.
Linux might be a small (but rising) percentage. But the bigger point is that Linux is a free operating system. If Linux can't run web content, that means
1. You need to pay someone for an OS in order to view the web.
2. The OS market isn't open, someone else can't just make an OS that people will use, because it can't view the web.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that Chrome for Linux exists but even if it didn't, it seems liked you're trying to argue that other people should be compelled to support your operating system of choice, not to mention conflating a small percentage of content with “the web".
Was the OS market not open when Flash for Linux didn't exist? FreeBSD? TempleOS?
What percentage of content needs to use EME before you “can't view the web”? If everything else but Netflix works, is the web open or closed?
More to the point, what do you expect to accomplish here – is hyperbole going to convince people to use Linux, cancel their Netflix/Amazon/etc. subscription, etc? If not, I would again suggest finding an argument which will appeal to a non-trivial number of people. Why should they care enough to change their spending or contact their representatives?
> What percentage of content needs to use EME before you “can't view the web”? If everything else but Netflix works, is the web open or closed?
If the EME are part of the HTML5 standard, but in practice they require some proprietary blob to operate, then the web isn't completely open. It doesn't mean that it's completely closed. Whether that matters depends, I suppose, on whether you want to take a pragmatic or ideological stance.
> More to the point, what do you expect to accomplish here
Does a complaint have to be a call to action?
> If not, I would again suggest finding an argument which will appeal to a non-trivial number of people.
I don't think an argument, as such, will sway many people. If EME (or similar closed technologies) cause enough problems for enough people (for some definition of "enough"), that will change peoples' opinions. Things have to get really, really bad before most people will ask for change.
Looks terrible, there is no mention of Linux at all.