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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, @10:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @10:53PM (#925133)

    Thanks for the offer but i don't need saving. Not from google or facebook or authoritarian governments or trolls or malware or or bad web design or solylents news. I will eat them all and laugh at their dead corpses.

    Yours sincerely
      The internet.