The world wide web (www) turned 29 on Monday. To celebrate the anniversary, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote a letter calling for "strong standards that balance the interests of both companies and online citizens."
At his letter, Berners-Lee criticized technology giants such as Twitter and Facebook for having too much control over the Internet and suggested more regulations.
“The web that many of us connected to years ago is not what young people have users today," says Berners-Lee in a blog post.
"What was once a rich variety of blogs and websites has been squeezed under the heavy weight of some dominant platforms."
“This concentration of this power creates a new set of gatekeepers, allowing a handful platforms to control which ideas and opinions appear and are shared," he said.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee also called for an immediate closing of the digital divide. For example: you are more likely to be outside connections if you are a woman, poor or live in a rural area or a very low-income country.
“If you're offline today, you're locked out of every opportunity to learn and earn access to valuable services and participate in democratic debates. If we don't invest seriously in closing this gap, the last billion won't be connected until 2042. We'll be missing an entire generation.”
What Tim Berners-Lee said about the 28 years of the World Wide Web
In his 2017 letter, Sir Tim Berners-Lee warned against fake news or fake news on the World Wide Web and that people would lose control of their personal data.
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