Tim Berners-Lee Says World Wide Web Must Emerge From 'Adolescence' (venturebeat.com)

The fraying World Wide Web needs to rediscover its strengths and grow into maturity, its designer Tim Berners-Lee said on Monday, marking the 30th anniversary of the collaborative software project his supervisor initially dubbed "vague but exciting." From a report: Speaking to reporters at CERN, the physics research center outside Geneva where he invented the web, Berners-Lee said users of the web had found it "not so pretty" recently. "They are all stepping back, suddenly horrified after the Trump and Brexit elections, realizing that this web thing that they thought was that cool is actually not necessarily serving humanity very well," he said. "It seems we don't finish reeling from one privacy disaster before moving onto the next one," he added, citing concerns about whether social networks were supporting democracy. People who had grown up taking the internet's neutrality for granted now found that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump had "rolled that back."

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You really need to fuck the hell off. This is the trouble with Brexiteers, you're fucking religious zealots. Literally everything is everyone else's fault because Brexit cannot be questioned. If it goes wrong there cannot be anything ill conceived about it, it MUST be the remainers fault. Brexit is prefect. All hail Brexit.

First, it's an outright lie that the EU has been trying to screw us at every turn. As far as I can tell, in the foolish illogic of the average Brexiteer, the EU not giving us everything we want no strings attached is them trying to screw us.

The rest is you complaining that the EU is looking after our own interests. No shit! What the fuck did you expect world happen?

Oh yeah I remember you drooling idiots dismisses reality as "project fear".

You had no clear goal, no plan how to get there, no idea of what was involved and no one sane or competent to implement it and yet somehow you believe it's not your fault for going down that path, it's the fault of the people who rightly pointed out the utter foolishness of it all.

And the kicker is that you'll expect the remainers (i.e.city dwellers whi generally the majority of wealth in the country) to pay for the folly when the economy inevitably winds up in three shitter and it transpires that the NHS utopia you voted for actually needs money to run.

Of course you'll keep pissing and moaning about us while you take our money not even realising you're adding insult to injury.

And finally your dismissal of a second referendum is an affront to democracy. Binding referendums have strict rules. Advisory ones don't. If the referendum was binding, the fraud from the leave side would have required a rerun. Treating a fraudulent, nonbinding referendum as binding is deeply anti democratic and you should be ashamed of yourself.

But you will have no shame about that either.