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People are becoming a lot more savvy to what's going on and they're actually demanding ethical product in response

People are becoming a lot more savvy to what's going on and they're actually demanding ethical product in response Source: SBS

The inventor of the worldwide web has launched an ambitious plan to govern it


The inventor of the worldwide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has launched an ambitious plan to govern it.

He's likened his proposed "contract for the web" to the Magna Carta, and says the digital policy agenda is designed to stop humankind falling into a digital dystopia.

In 1989, a young Tim Berners-Lee created the worldwide web.

But 30 years later, Sir Tim says he's having second thoughts.

He's so concerned, he's drawn up what he's calling a "contract for the web".

It's made up of nine principles and 72 clauses designed to counteract issues including misinformation and censorship, problems which Sir Tim says have evolved since he started the web three decades ago.


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