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Berners-Lee Troubled by 'Growing Inequality' on Web
2014-12-11 18:02:27| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
The Internet remains unavailable to almost 60 percent of the world's population, the Web Foundation found.
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Internet should be 'basic human right' Berners-Lee
2014-12-11 15:05:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) World wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called for internet access to be recognised as a human right. Presenting his World Wide Web Foundation's latest report tracking the internet's global impact, Berners-Lee said the internet could help tackle inequality as long as rights such as freedom of expression, affordable access and net neutrality were "hardwired" into the basic rules of net use. "It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right," he said. "That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live." However, the 2014-15 edition of the Web Foundation's annual Web Index found that the web is becoming less free and more unequal. Almost 60 percent of the world's people 4.3 billion cannot get online, while over half of those who can access the internet live in countries that severely restrict their rights online. In fact, laws preventing mass online surveillance are weak or nonexistent in more than 84 percent of countries, said the report, and 38 percent of surveyed countries are blocking sensitive online content to a "moderate or extreme degree", an increase of 6 percent from 2013.
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VIDEO: Berners-Lee: An unlikely fraud victim
2014-06-04 01:06:38| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Mary Berners-Lee, the mother of the man who invented the world wide web, tells BBC Watchdog how she fell victim to courier fraud.
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Berners-Lee Dreams Impossible Dream
2014-03-13 18:32:21| TechNewsWorld
Tim Berners-Lee, known as the "father of the Internet," has called for an online bill of rights. Twenty-five years ago, Berners-Lee wrote a proposal for what would become the Internet as we know it today, making the case that it needed to move toward a decentralized, open architecture and away from the proprietary linear structure that was emerging at the time.
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Tim Berners-Lee says government snooping threatens future democracy
2013-11-25 14:34:50| InfoWorld: Top News
Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that government surveillance and censorship will threaten the democratic nature of the Web. Berners-Lee made his comments as his World Wide Web Foundation (WWWF) released its annual Web index report, tracking global censorship.
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