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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Re:The US and UK

[Jzanu]

The UK didn't vote for Brexit, Putin's illegal propaganda funding created enough disinformation on what it was that the majority didn't vote. Now that reality has set in and the disaster it is is obvious, those who want to live as they have must stop Brexit with a real vote.

Re:"Trump and Brexit elections"

[Anonymous Coward]

He also seems fine with all the child porn, drug trafficking, animal abuse videos, assassins for hire, anti-vaccination misinformation, stalking, gun smuggling, fraud, identity theft, data breaches and all other forms of evil that have been a part of the Web since its inception.

But once you've got two democratic decisions made in two separate free countries that the establishment media doesn't like, the Web isn't serving humanity as it should be.

I love the Web and I'm thankful for all the good it's done for me, but you know what? Fuck you, Tim.

You don't understand what was said, do you...

[SuperKendall]

If you listen to the whole recording, you see that he's talking about how women act around famous or very rich people. Is he wrong?

You might be mad he took advantage of it, but why? What would you truly do if women were throwing themselves at you? The reaction of people to Trump describing a situation they will never encounter always amuses me, because most people would act with hardly more honor in similar situations.

In contrast to that single audio tape, we have countless women working for Trump before he was ever president, and working with him now - along with having daughters. That all balances out Trump's profile in my books, he obviously thinks women are capable of anything. Juste because he also likes to have sex and has fewer scruples in that regard than most people most people doesn't really alter that fundamental point.

That's the real problem with society and especially with liberals today, they cannot separate sex from ability. It's why they also shamefully attack sex workers and slut shame women left and right with the slightest pretext... and supposedly Trump is against women? Please. His only crime is loving them too much.