Berners-Lee: Facebook 'threatens' web future * The Register - 6 views
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He also warns against Phorm-style snooping and governments that restrict free speech on the web.
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"continued grassroots innovation may be the best check and balance against any one company or government that tries to undermine universality."
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The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.
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Tim Berners-Lee has dubbed Facebook a threat to the universality of the world wide web. Next month marks the twentieth anniversary of the first webpage - served up by Berners-Lee at the CERN particle physics lab in Geneva - and in the December issue of Scientific American, he celebrates the uniquely democratic nature of his creation, before warning against the forces that could eventually bring it down. "Several threats to the Web's universality have arisen recently,"