World wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee called on the public and politicians to 'come together' to end its misuse on the technology's 30th anniversary.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has called on the public and politicians to"come together" to end its misuse in a letter to mark the technology's 30th anniversary.
First proposed by Sir Tim as an information management system in 1989 while he was working for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research , around half of the world's population is now online.Many of the world's largest web-based companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google, have come under scrutiny in recent years over data privacy issues and the rising spread of malicious and offensive content.
He urged governments, organisations and the public to work together to improve the current system and make it available to everyone. Berners-Lee also called for a response to the"unintended negative consequences" of the web, which he said had led to"the outraged and polarised tone and quality of online discourse".The letter says:"While the first category is impossible to eradicate completely, we can create both laws and code to minimise this behaviour, just as we have always done offline.
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