Online freedom under threat: WWW inventor

The British scientist credited with inventing the world wide web, is warning online freedom is being put at risk by the demands of big business.

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Published 19 April 2011 3:09pm

Updated 23 August 2013 5:14pm

Source: SBS, BBC

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist credited with inventing the world wide web, is warning that the freedom of the web is being put at risk by the demands of big business.

He told the BBC that companies which want to control the traffic on the Internet could make it less free-and-open than he had originally intended.

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