Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee has unveiled a nine-point plan to “save the internet.” Cooked up with the help of some of the web’s biggest players, it has something for everyone, but begs the question of who will enforce it.
“If we leave the web as it is, there’s a very large number of things that will go wrong,” Web inventor Berners-Lee told the Guardian on Sunday, after his Web Foundation published the plan, the product of a year of work from some 80 collaborating organizations.
We could end up with a digital dystopia if we don’t turn things around.
Most of the nine principles are relatively straightforward – “Ensure everyone can connect to the internet,” “Keep all of the internet available, all of the time,” “Make the internet affordable and accessible to everyone.” Read more