Speaking to the Guardian newspaper, the creator of the Internet as we know it today, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, emphasized the need creationς μιας διαδικτυακής διακήρυξης δικαιωμάτων, που θα εξασφαλίζει την ασφάλεια και την ανεξαρτησία του Internet και των χρηστών του.
Berners-Lee gave the interview on the occasion of completing 25 years since his first draft, the first proposal on how the World Wide Web should evolve. The "father of the Internet" stresses the need for a global regulation, a declaration of rights.
Berners-Lee's Magna Card * is going to be part of the "The Web We Want" movement, which invites people to create a digital declaration of rights, everyone in their own country. He believes that this declaration of these rights can also be supported by public institutions, government officials and businesses.
As he emphasizes, "if there is no open and neutral Internet, then we cannot have open governments, good democracy, system health, proper communication and interconnection of cultures". To add, "it's not naive to think that we can have something like that, but it's naive to think that we can just sit back and wait for it to come by itself."
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Tim Berners-Lee has been highly critical of the American and British secret services and the surveillance system they have set up, as revealed by Edward Snowden. He has also been critical of the American NSA and British GCHQ's tactics of undermining business security and encryption tools technologys.
Beyond the principles of respect for user privacy, freedom of speech and responsible anonymity, Berners-Lee believes that the declaration he envisions could also address issues such as the impact of copyright laws and ethics on Internet. He also believes that the "The Web We Want" initiative can gain traction support from the world, despite the fact that in the Snowden case there is a lack of interest from the public.
In addition, he also referred to the need to remove US control over the Internet Domain Name Database to better reflect the global nature of the Web.
Tim Berners-Lee's original vision was a global network of information and knowledge exchange and a tool for collaboration between scientists and other workers. In the course of the Web, a publishing platform has emerged to disseminate information.
* The Magna Card, ie the Latin Charter in Latin, refers to the charter statute issued by 1215 and called upon the King of England John to renounce some of his rights and to accept that he would be bound by the laws. At the same time, the Charter protected the rights of the king's citizens.
