Inventor calls for people to 'elect politicians who defend a free and open web' and 'foster healthy conversations online'.
In his letter he wrote:"I broadly see three sources of dysfunction affecting today's web: Deliberate, malicious intent, such as state-sponsored hacking and attacks, criminal behaviour, and online harassment.
"[And] unintended negative consequences of benevolent design, such as the outraged and polarised tone and quality of online discourse." Companies must do more to ensure their pursuit of short-term profit is not at the expense of human rights, democracy, scientific fact or public safety."Companies must do more to ensure their pursuit of short-term profit is not at the expense of human rights, democracy, scientific fact or public safety.
However the"most important of all" possible responses to prevent the web turning bad, according to Sir Tim, was how its users behaved.
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