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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday November 26 2019, @07:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the world-wide-wail dept.

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/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @07:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @07:03PM (#925020)

    Have you been to their "Contract for the Web" site? This is a pure hypocrisy - showing logos of "supporters" without any information who they are, and of course without links, to keep the user on the site as long as possible. Is this what we want - Internet in which there is no links because it's helping competitors? This is contrary to the idea of decentralized Internet, this will nullify all 3 last points of this "manifesto". External links are a backbone of Internet oriented to exchange knowledge, without this we're in the balkanization again.
    In these logos, I can see Google and FB, which should be blamed for situation. Reddit... which did what they did to open source and of course they have a recent political affairs. There is also a Twitter, supplying information for profiling since 2006. W3C... Are they these pals with EME DRM? Wait... Tim Bernes-Lee? Didn't he approved something with it?.
    I don't know most of these logos, but I am just curious who invented that two purple rotten fishes with green bugs on them is a good idea for a logo :).

    The Internet is already divided and commercialized. The entry level is no more a HTML tutorial, notepad.exe and FTP client - which everyone could afford. In fact we're more than halfway to the situation like in a TV - only large businesses can have their presence in the medium, people may write them postcards hoping that they will be read in an advert.
    There will be no "late 90s", where WWW pages were made to share knowledge, and not only knowledge, but have control over what they drag to "Remote" panel and publish.
    There will be something opposite - who has bigger censorship capabilities, has the power. Especially self-censorship as modern society is trained to bark at the past things and assume nothing changes.