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Inventor of the web says the web needs to be fixed, and fast
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the English scientist credited with the invention of the World Wide Web, isn’t too happy about where said web is going.
In an open letter published Monday — a day before the WWW’s 30th anniversary — Berners-Lee outlines the issues that plague the internet today, and what he thinks needs to be done to fix them.
“While the web has created opportunity, given marginalised groups a voice, and made our daily lives easier, it has also created opportunity for scammers, given a voice to those who spread hatred, and made all kinds of crime easier to commit,” he wrote. Read more…
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