Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956
Tim Berners-Lee's plan to 'save the web' has been formally launched today and is backed by more than 150 organizations, including Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
The inventor of the World Wide Web explained back in March his reasons for wanting a 'contract for the web'...
It's 30 years today since Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for what would become the World Wide Web [and] said that the 30th anniversary was a time to reflect on both the positives and negatives [...]
"I think it's been a force for good for the first 15 [years], and right now it's really in the balance. I'm very concerned about nastiness and misinformation spreading. I think with a mid-course correction, the 'contract for the web' is about: let's all stop this downward plunge to a dysfunctional future."
Source: https://9to5mac.com/2019/11/25/save-the-web/
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday November 26 2019, @03:06PM
I think in this discourse we're losing sight of the original purpose of the Internet, which was to be a decentralized communications system. Yet, here we are quibbling about governments and corporations and the Illuminati controlling it. So, disintermediate them some more. Disintermediate until centralized control by anyone is impossible. Disintermediate the information, then disintermediate production of materiel, then tell the Masters to go fuck themselves sideways.
Washington DC delenda est.