Speaking to the Guardian, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Internet creator, as we know it today, stressed the need to create an online rights declaration that would guarantee 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 the American and British secret services and the monitoring 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 users' privacy, freedom of speech and responsible anonymity, Berners-Lee believes that the envisioned vision can resolve issues such as the impact of copyright laws and ethics on Internet. He also believes that the "The Web We Want" initiative can gain broad support from the world, despite Snowden's lack of interest in the public.
In addition, in his interview he also mentioned the need to remove American control of the base data for Internet domain names to better reflect the global nature of the Web.
Tim Berners-Lee's original vision was a global network ofchangeς πληροφοριών και γνώσεων και ένα εργαλείο συνwork between scientists and other workers. Along the way, the Web emerged as a publishing platform for disseminating 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.
