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Berners-Lee, who hatched the Web in 1989, said a sense of optimism about the internet had been damaged by abuses of personal data, online hate speech, political manipulation and the centralization of power among a small group of major tech firms. (Photo: Tim Berners-Lee Via TedEx YouTube video)

At 30, World Wide Web not the web we wanted,' inventor says

The 63-year-old Englishman is calling on governments, companies and citizens to work together, and wants the web to...

12 March 2019 4:24 PM IST

This inequality is a barrier to wider equality, and we know it most affects those who are already marginalized _ people in developing countries, those on low incomes, and of course, women and girls, Tim Berners-Lee said. Men remain 21 percent more likely than women to be online, and 52 percent more likely in the least developing countries. (File Photo | AP)

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says digital divide should be...

Some 3.5 billion people nearly half the world have missed out on the lifeline the internet has provided during the...

12 Jun 2020 6:54 PM IST

The intervention by the 62-year-old MIT professor comes as some European governments turn to legislation to curb fake news and hate speech that they fear is undermining the basis of their democracies.

Big tech must be regulated, says inventor of world wide web

Tim Berners-Lee hits at social media companies to be regulated to prevent the internet from being weaponised at scale.

13 March 2018 7:44 AM IST

$Facebook has also launched a \journalism project\ that aims to support the news ecosystem.$ Technology

Web needs rethink to stop -"nasty-" ideas spreading, says its creator

Berners-Lee, a London-born computer scientist who invented the Web as a platform on top of the internet in 1989

10 April 2017 9:48 PM IST