Tim Berners-Lee, who’s often credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, sees a modern Frankenstein’s Monster in how his creation is being used today.<\/p>
That’s the gist of Berners-Lee’s comments at Monday’s Web Summit tech conference, where CNBC reported<\/a><\/em> that he laid out ground rules for a new “Contract for the Web<\/a>“and called for a return to net neutrality<\/a>.<\/p> The new contract, published by Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web Foundation, calls for safeguards that protect users’ data from being sold, stolen, or misused. Looking back at the history of the web, Berners-Lee argued that without explicit protections against them, hate speech, misinformation, and abuse have been allowed to proliferate online.<\/p> “<\/strong>If you’d asked me 10 years ago, I would have said humanity is going to do a good job with this,” Berners-Lee told CNBC<\/em>. “If we connect all these people together, they are such wonderful people they will get along. I was wrong.”<\/p> Apparently Facebook and Google, two of the largest perpetrators of privacy violations<\/a> and unscrupulous online activity<\/a>, have already signed onto the contract. It raises the question of how useful such an agreement could possibly be, given the fact that these tech giants are unlikely to sign anything that would hurt their bottom line.<\/p> All the same, anything that helps restore net neutrality<\/a> is a good thing, especially if Berners-Lee is willing to throw his weight around.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>The inventor of the web says the internet is now at a ‘tipping point’ — and reveals a plan to fix it<\/a> [CNBC<\/em>]<\/p> More on net neutrality: Net Neutrality Is Officially Gone. Here’s How This Will Affect You.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p> Read more from the original source: It\u2019s Alive Tim Berners-Lee, who\u2019s often credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, sees a modern Frankenstein\u2019s Monster in how his creation is being used today. That\u2019s the gist of Berners-Lee\u2019s comments at Monday\u2019s Web Summit tech conference, where CNBC reported that he laid out ground rules for a new \u201c Contract for the Web \u201cand called for a return to net neutrality . Crowd Surfing The new contract, published by Berners-Lee\u2019s World Wide Web Foundation, calls for safeguards that protect users\u2019\u00a0data from being sold, stolen, or misused Continue reading Crowd Surfing<\/strong><\/h2>
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