Tim Berners-Lee has presented at the weekend his “Contract for the Web”. The man who invented thirty years ago, the World Wide Web, looks at his creation in danger: Political manipulators, purveyors of Fake News and data collector to threaten, the freedom.
so that was Why this Treaty, the governments, businesses and citizens to take the same masses in the duty (and Contractfortheweb.org can be viewed). Governments need to ensure that all are allowed to use the network and that all content is always accessible.
“Fight for the Web! Silk Copyright!”
The company have a duty to protect the privacy of users and to develop technologies to “awaken in the people the Best and the worst fight”. We citizens are not encouraged to fight for the Web to only consume, but itself anything online to contribute and decent to deal with each other.
a Total of nine principles, to which 80 organizations for more than a year have worked. The contract is supported by 150 companies, including Microsoft, Twitter, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. It is striking that, of the big Tech companies like Apple and Amazon so far, not to the contract have to be known.
A binding contract to make the Internet an Instrument of the common good.
this Is a figment of the turn for the Better, or idealistic brain? Of course you can ask, how seriously is Facebook with its commitment, after Mark Zuckerberg after all its privacy scandals still no real desire for improvement has detect. And Google has just completed two weeks of a partnership with the healthcare provider, Ascension, which will give the search engine group in the United States access to millions of patient data.
It’s a start
Nevertheless, Even if some companies need the Treaty as a Fig leaf, he is so right and important. First, Tim Berners-Lee brought the Web as an idealistic humanity idea already to fly. And secondly, we have nothing Better – also in the fight against climate change, the Declaration of intent at the beginning, only once.
that’s Why must confess, after Germany, France and Ghana, Switzerland to the contract. Of course, we, the network would have to tilt locks from our laws because of the conflict with the ban on Censorship. But that is a small price to pay for the rescue of the Web.
Created: 26.11.2019, 21:34 PM
