World Wide Web Creator Worries About Internet Control

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/08/Next_Decade_Technologies_Changing_the_World-Tim-Ber...

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee shares his concerns regarding net neutrality and online privacy. He says that Internet users need to be responsible for "keeping an eye out" to protect the freedom and anonymity of the Web.

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Steve Lohr speaks with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, in honor of his receiving the Millennium Technology Prize. - Technology Academy Foundation

A graduate of Oxford University, England, in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.

He is the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He is also a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK.

He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. He is co-Director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) started in 2006 to help create the first multidisciplinary research body to examine the World Wide Web and offer the practical solutions needed to help guide its future use and design.

He is also a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, started in 2008 to fund and coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.

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[alfredunhill]

When McCain was running for president in the U.S. he talked about controlling the internet, citing an example where an innocent girl doing research on her culture may come across a terrorist website, therefore we need to protect the children by filtering the internet....please wake up sheeple and don't let another scare, economic, military or otherwise allow you to surrender your liberty....

[UnschoolingEagle]

This is because freedom of information kind of ruins their ability to brainwash their kids.

[happinesson]

You got a point..It boils down for being "responsible"

[amcd981]

@DaleWF10 American tax dollars had just as much a stake in development of time sharing, networking etc (what ultimately would become the internet) as British and European but the idea of the world wide web was this guy's who was working for CERN. It's important to remember the entire project was paid for by us, the taxpayers! These are governent organizations.

[DaleWF10]

What a great British invention the world wide web is!

[b9y]

@alfredunhill Oh.. my.. god.. a young innocent girl coming across a terrorist website? are you fucking stupid? and you wonder why most of the world hates the American population. You're saying wake up sheeple? you are the sheep, because you believed the Lies of John McCain who was saying that as an EXAMPLE and a very far fetched one at that.

[futbolusa]

This guy gave us the web and instead of selling and profiting off it he made it free right the get go. And because of that I believe that he is one of the greatest men to ever live. Thank you, Tim.

[JG129]

@411American I've thought this too !!!!

[411American]

@artwel123 No not a Americant mexiCON lady

[artwel123]

@411American Are you a MEXICUNT?

[thugginsin]

@411American bro explained this whole bullshit perfect

[rogerdek]

It is clear that the intention of BT is to reshape the internet as an extension to traditional broadcasting. BT are aiming to privatise the internet for the commercial benefit of BT and selected 'Content Providers'. Ordinary citizens will be placed in the slow lane of a two-tiered internet and will find it increasingly difficult to broadcast their own video material. The Internet was built on the principles on net-neutrality where all content is treated equally. BT want to put an end to this.