LONDON, September 28 -- The British inventor of the World Wide Web warned on Saturday that the freedom of the Interne is under threat by governments and corporations interested in controlling the web.
Mr Berners-Lee, 59, is director of the World Wide Web Consortium, a body which develops guidelines for the development of the Inernet. He called for an Internet version of the "Magna Carta", the 13th century English charter credited with guaranteeing basic rights and freedoms. Concerns over privacy and freedom on the Internet have increased in the wake of the revelation of mass government monitoring of online activity following leaks by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. A ruling by the European Union to allow individuals to ask search engines such as Google to remove links to information about them, called the "right to be forgotten", has also raised concerns over the potential for censorship. "There have been lots of times that it has been abused, so now the Magna Carta is about saying...I want a web where I'm not spied on, where there's no censorship," Mr Berners-Lee said. The scientist added that in order to be a "neutral medium", the Internet had to reflect all of humanity, including "some ghastly stuff". "Now some things are of course just illegal, child pornography, fraud, telling someone how to rob a bank, that's illegal before the web and it's illegal after the web," Mr Berners-Lee added. Source: De Peet Journal
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