Web inventor Berners-Lee warns forces are 'trying to take control'

[longknife]

Companies and governments “trying to take control of the internet” are undermining the founding principles of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned

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By James Hurley, Enterprise Editor,12:05PM BST 08 Jun 2013

The inventor of the World Wide Web said the internet is facing a “major” threat from “people who want to control it on the sly” through “worrying laws” such as SOPA, the US anti-piracy act, and through the actions of internet giants.

“If you can control [the internet], if you can start tweaking what people say, or intercepting communications, it's very, very powerful...it's the sort of power that if you give it to a corrupt government, you give them the ability to stay in power forever.”

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Some may say this should be posted as a conspiracy theory but I find it to be chillingly true. I've believed, for years, that government forces are seeking to control the content of the internet – a severe form of censorship that must be fought with all out strength and will.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Are you saying that "certain forces" are creating a high security Web 2.0, forcing us on THAT and then shut down Web 1.0? All the while using our Tax Money to build it?

No f*ckin' way.