[liberationtech] Web Inventor Releases Ambitious Plan to Take Back Net

[Yosem Companys]

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee released an ambitious rule book for
online governance — a bill of rights and obligations for the internet —
designed to counteract the growing prevalence of such anti-democratic
poisons as misinformation, mass surveillance and censorship.

The product of a year’s work by the World Wide Web Foundation where
Berners-Lee is a founding director, the “ Contract for the Web ” seeks
commitments from governments and industry to make and keep knowledge freely
available — a digital policy agenda true to the design vision of the
30-year-old web.

The contract is non-binding, however. And funders and partners in the
endeavor include Google and Facebook, whose data-collecting business models
and sensation-rewarding algorithms have been blamed for exacerbating online
toxicity.

https://time.com/5738321/tim-berners-lee-web-contract/
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