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."

Comments

If only there was something he could do about it

[Hentes]

It seems we don't finish reeling from one privacy disaster before moving onto the next one

If only there was something Tim Berners-Lee could do about privacy vulnerabilities being included into web standards...

Web teen angst

[magarity]

Tim Berners-Lee: World Wide Web, you must emerge from adolescence
WWW: I didn't ask to be born!
Tim Berners-Lee: ...
WWW: You're not my real parent anyways!

Re:The US and UK

[Jzanu]

Did you get an extra potato for that one? Or maybe your retirement fish?

Re:That is exactly backwards

[Kernel Kurtz]

you can see how Trump behaves now and in the past around women

Indeed. You just grab em by the pussy.