"Don't Enable Dark Patterns" Principle?

[torgo]

@tantek left an issue on Ethical Web Principles w3ctag/ethical-web-principles#25 suggesting a principle on this topic:

We will avoid introducing technologies that create new or disproportionately enable, benefit, or amplify existing user interface dark patterns, such as confirm shaming, misdirection, friend spam, permissions pressuring or escalation, threat of data loss etc. We should also avoid new technologies that could be easily abused by existing dark patterns to more easily cause new or worse harms to users. We should design specifications that explicitly plan for and mitigate potential dark pattern abuses.

However I wonder if this should in fact be part of the design principles doc, referring back to the Ethical Principle enhancing individual control and power?

[torgo]

Agreed this can be closed as we've included a few references to EWP in Design Principles...