WEB MAGNA CARTA: WWW INVENTOR CALLS FOR ‘ONLINE BILL OF RIGHTS’ (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Monday, September 29, 2014, 11:28

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web has spoken out against world governments and corporations, which he says are seeking to control the web for their own gain.

He called for a revolutionary bill of rights to guaranty the web’s independence.

When he invented the nexus 25 years, ago, the British Berners-Lee dreamed of a neutral space where humanity, with all of its “ghastly stuff,” would be free to be itself. Now, however, he sees no choice but to institute a sort of Magna Carta for the online world – a document that would be modeled on the 13th-century English charter on basic rights and freedoms.

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