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Tim Berners-Lee: We Need to Re-Decentralize the Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee says he wants "a Web that's open, works internationally, works as well as possible, and is not nation-based."
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In an interview, Sir Tim Berners-Lee called on the public to refocus on a decentralized, open Internet.
"I want a Web that's open, works internationally, works as well as possible, and is not nation-based," Berners-Lee says. "What I don't want is a Web where the Brazilian government has every social network's data stored on servers on Brazilian soil."
The U.S. National Security Agency and the UK's Government Communications Headquarters surveillance controversies have led to distrust among governments and individuals that is threatening the open Web, Berners-Lee warns. He says the hacker community has the responsibility of "pushing back on conventional government sometimes" to voice alternative viewpoints.
Berners-Lee promotes an open Internet through his work at the Open Data Institute, the World Wide Web Consortium, and the World Wide Web Foundation. In addition, as a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, Berners-Lee helps his students build "new architectures for the Web where it's decentralized."
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