Dailyecho 12th March
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has called on
the public and politicians to "come together" to end its misuse in a
letter to mark the technology's 30th anniversary.
The founder of the World Wide Web Foundation said the internet had
created opportunities for good but had also become a space used by
"scammers" and "given a voice to those who spread hatred, and made all
kinds of crime easier to commit".
First proposed by Sir Tim as an information management system in 1989
while he was working for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research
(CERN), around half of the world's population is now online.
Many of the world's largest web-based companies, such as Facebook,
Twitter and Google, have come under scrutiny in recent years over data
privacy issues and the rising spread of malicious and offensive content.
In his letter, Sir Tim said it would be "defeatist and unimaginative"
to assume that the web could not be changed for the better given how far
it has come in its first 30 years, but urged governments, organisations
and the public to work together to improve the current system and make
it available to everyone.
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