Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by martyb on Wednesday April 05 2017, @02:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-itsy-bitsy-spider dept.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave an interview with radio station WBUR about the state of the Web and its future:

Berners-Lee initially imagined the web as a beautiful platform that could help us overcome national and cultural boundaries. He envisioned it would break down silos, but many people today believe the web has created silos.

And he still largely sees the potential of the web, but the web has not turned out to be the complete cyber Utopian dream he had hoped. He's particularly worried about the dark side of social media — places where he says anonymity is being used by "misogynist bullies, by nasty people who just get a kick out of being nasty."

He also identified personal data privacy, the spread of misinformation, and a lack of transparency in online political advertising as major problems with the current Web in a letter marking the World Wide Web's 28th birthday last month.

Previously: World Wide Web Turns 25 years Old
Tim Berners-Lee Proposes an Online Magna Carta
Berners-Lee on HTML 5: If It's Not on the Web, It Doesn't Exist
The First Website Went Online 25 Years Ago
Berners-Lee: World Wide Web is Spy Net
Tim Berners-Lee Just Gave us an Opening to Stop DRM in Web Standards


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by linkdude64 on Wednesday April 05 2017, @07:50PM

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Wednesday April 05 2017, @07:50PM (#489306)

    People being offended is the problem. Pay no attention to ISIS-recruitment occuring on the clearnet over social media (and now, in person) in fucking Sweden. Those are not extremists.

    Murderers and those who support religiously and culturally motivated murder are not extremists.
    The REAL extremists are those who create fake Twitter profiles to call feminists fat.

    Repeat:
    Murderers and those who support religiously and culturally motivated murder are not extremists.
    The REAL extremists are those who hold conservative views and post about them anonymously for their own physical safety, as they will, demonstrably, be physically beaten by the non-extremists if they do not.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +2  
       Insightful=1, Interesting=1, Disagree=1, Total=3
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   4