In his letter he wrote:"I broadly see three sources of dysfunction affecting today's web: Deliberate, malicious intent, such as state-sponsored hacking and attacks, criminal behaviour, and online harassment.
"[And] unintended negative consequences of benevolent design, such as the outraged and polarised tone and quality of online discourse." Companies must do more to ensure their pursuit of short-term profit is not at the expense of human rights, democracy, scientific fact or public safety."Companies must do more to ensure their pursuit of short-term profit is not at the expense of human rights, democracy, scientific fact or public safety.
However the"most important of all" possible responses to prevent the web turning bad, according to Sir Tim, was how its users behaved.
There will always be a Dark Side, always some using it for negative reasons, but this is life, everyone has put on clean underpants to discover after a day's wear they have found a skid mark. Abe Lincoln said you could never trust everything on the WWW.
A Free and Open Web is never going to happen. Not when governments want to spy on the people, Not when big business want to spy on users for their data, and not when to many people are making ludicrous amounts of money. Wake up and smell the Roses.
Little late, wouldn’t you say?
servers can be programmed to be in safe zones and browser pins can protect by defailt no pin safe zone pin open zone shopping pin spending money and you do not need to remember passwords or logins
The Web started going downhill when everyone stopped putting 'imho' on the end of their forum posts/comments. imho.
No there needs to be some control to spot abuse where laws are clear and they need to protect people and not abuse people that do stuff that is ok but not for all to see and this can be done without abuse but they are abusing and that needs to be stopped as they are making money
Amazing invention, thank you. This has changed the world & so fortunate to have been part of the digital revolution since 1985. Just hope the positives are always greater than the negatives.
Yes, however, everybody believes they are an expert and it could undermine democracy. Rabble rousers have never had it so good.
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