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Tim Berners-Lee Wants Us To Take Back the Internet

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mspohr shares a report: When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989, his vision was clear: it would used by everyone, filled with everything and, crucially, it would be free. Today, the British computer scientist's creation is regularly used by 5.5 billion people -- and bears little resemblance to the democratic force for humanity he intended. Since Berners-Lee's disappointment a decade ago, he's thrown everything at a project …
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Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web, punches him on the table. In this interview given to the Guardian today, he explains basically that it is high time to "take back the Internet" to the giants who turned him into a money machine. It was time for it to come out! Because he is talking about a "battle for the soul of the web." That's all! According to him, the current web has become a "optimized for wickedness" and mass surveillance thing. I c…

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slashdot.org broke the news in on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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