Speaking to the Guardian newspaper, the creator of the internet as we know it today, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, stressed the need to create an online declaration of rights, which will ensure the security and independence of the Internet and its users.
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.
"Without an open and neutral Internet, then we can not have open governments, good democracy, a health system, proper communication and interconnection of civilizations." To supplement, "it is not naive to think that we can have this, but it is naive to think that we can just sit and wait for it to come by itself."
The Guardian: Online Magna Card asks Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee has been particularly critical of American and British secrets services and the surveillance system they have introduced, as revealed by Edward Snowden. He has also been critical of the tactics of the American NSA and the British GCHQ, of undermining the security and encryption tools of technology companies.
Beyond the principles of respect for user privacy, freedom of speech and responsibility anonymitys, Berners-Lee considers that with the declaration he envisions can be resolved and themesuch as the impact of copyright laws and Internet ethics. He also believes that the "The Web We Want" initiative can gain broad public support, despite the lack of public interest in the Snowden case.
In addition, in his interview he also mentioned the need to remove American control over base data on Internet domain names 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.
