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Tim Berners-Lee Launches Campaign To Save the Web From Abuse (theguardian.com)
Tim Berners-Lee has launched a global campaign to save the web from the destructive effects of abuse and discrimination, political manipulation, and other threats that plague the online world. A report adds: In a talk at the opening of the Web Summit in Lisbon on Monday, the inventor of the web called on governments, companies and individuals to back a new "Contract for the Web" that aims to protect people's rights and freedoms on the internet. The contract outlines central principles that will be built into a full contract and published in May 2019, when half of the world's population will be able to get online. More than 50 organisations have already signed the contract, which is published by Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation alongside a report that calls for urgent action.
"For many years there was a feeling that the wonderful things on the web were going to dominate and we'd have a world with less conflict, more understanding, more and better science, and good democracy," Berners-Lee told the Guardian. "But people have become disillusioned because of all the things they see in the headlines. Humanity connected by technology on the web is functioning in a dystopian way. We have online abuse, prejudice, bias, polarisation, fake news, there are lots of ways in which it is broken. This is a contract to make the web one which serves humanity, science, knowledge and democracy." Under the principles laid out in the document, which Berners-Lee calls a "Magna Carta for the web", governments must ensure that its citizens have access to all of the internet, all of the time, and that their privacy is respected so they can be online "freely, safely and without fear." Berners-Lee, added, "We're at a 50/50 moment for the web. We've created something amazing together, but half the world is still not online, and our online rights and freedoms are at risk. The web has done so much for us, but now we need to stand up #ForTheWeb." You can watch his talk here (skip the first 10 minutes).
"For many years there was a feeling that the wonderful things on the web were going to dominate and we'd have a world with less conflict, more understanding, more and better science, and good democracy," Berners-Lee told the Guardian. "But people have become disillusioned because of all the things they see in the headlines. Humanity connected by technology on the web is functioning in a dystopian way. We have online abuse, prejudice, bias, polarisation, fake news, there are lots of ways in which it is broken. This is a contract to make the web one which serves humanity, science, knowledge and democracy." Under the principles laid out in the document, which Berners-Lee calls a "Magna Carta for the web", governments must ensure that its citizens have access to all of the internet, all of the time, and that their privacy is respected so they can be online "freely, safely and without fear." Berners-Lee, added, "We're at a 50/50 moment for the web. We've created something amazing together, but half the world is still not online, and our online rights and freedoms are at risk. The web has done so much for us, but now we need to stand up #ForTheWeb." You can watch his talk here (skip the first 10 minutes).
Oh you sweet naive man, do you also believe in rainbow shitting unicorns and santa claus?
what a waste of time
That's trivially easy. If you can't not act and talk like a racist, or react only based on fear, or not spread lies and disinformation... The problem isn't that we're unable have honest discussions. The problem is that you're a dishonest jackass who wouldn't recognize honesty and facts if they were standing in front of you.
The rest of your comment makes that abundantly clear - you're more interested in spreading the racist FUD about "being illegal" than in actual discussion.
The racist jerks that now rule Slashdot can go ahead and mod me down and prove me right. The problem isn't "PC culture" - the problem is folks like you.
Absolutely. Now, pardon me I'm about to drive my car through your house, while gunning down anyone I see. After all, any interference in my freedom to do that would be a compromise, and thus prove that freedom does not exist.
In case you missed it, that was sarcasm. The entirety of civilization is built on the compromise of freedoms in exchange for safety, efficiency, etc. As the old saying goes - My freedom to swing my arms stops where your nose begins.
--- Most topics have many sides worth arguing, allow me to take one opposite you.
Way to go proving the OP's point, asshole.
Many of those hijackers were here illegally. You have the reading problem. If you liberals weren't so dumb fuck stupid we might have a good discussion, but you went right to the name calling, which I will return in kind.
In fact I believe you understood me completely, but it didn't fit your narrative, so you ignored that they were here illegally and pretended they weren't. A common tactic with liberals, lie if the truth doesn't fit and hope people don't call you out.
Once again we have a dumb fuck liberal lying to get their way and completely disregarding how many US citizens are hurt/killed by their plans. Liberals are evil, pure and simple.