Posted on 10/30/2019 11:51:10 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
On October 29, 1969, the internet era began as UCLA Computer Science Professor Len Kleinrock sent the first message on ARPANET, a network of computers that would evolve to become the internet.
Five decades later, and 30 years since the World Wide Web brought the internet into the mainstream, global digital connectivity has fundamentally changed our world.
Marking the anniversary, our founder and inventor of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, said:
“It’s astonishing to think the internet is already half a century old. But its birthday is not altogether a happy one. The internet — and the World Wide Web it enabled — have changed our lives for the better and have the power to transform millions more in the future. But increasingly we’re seeing that power for good being subverted, whether by scammers, people spreading hatred or vested interests threatening democracy.
“A year ago, I called for a new Contract for the Web, bringing together governments, companies and citizen groups to come up with a clear plan of action to protect the web as a force for good. In a month’s time that plan will be ready. This birthday must mark the moment we take on the fight for the web we want.”
We urgently need an ambitious, coordinated effort to tackle the threats facing the internet and the web, and make sure that everyone is able to access the benefits of digital technology. Next month, we’ll publish the Contract for the Web — a plan created by experts and individuals from across the world to make sure our online world is safe, empowering and genuinely for everyone.
There are those who want to control the internet. They know how dangerous 'hate speech' is. They know know what's best for us. They know we can't be trusted to tell the difference from mainstream meida approved news from fake news and conspiracy theories.
They're right. There is a threat to the internet. It comes from the people who want to control it.
Beware the forces of "good".
Tim Berners-Lee warns internet’s power for good is ‘under threat’
Opinion: 50 years ago, I helped invent the internet. How did it go so wrong?
Get the f***ing Liberals/democRATs/Commies out of the web and it will be good.
This is obviously fake news. We all know Al Gore invented the internet.
Read an article back in the mid- to late-80s in “Mondo 2000” that said the internet had the capacity to create “Athens without slaves” but the fear was that it would do the opposite and create slaves without Athens. Always seemed so obvious we were heading that way. But how do you stop it?
For the most part, it was social media with it’s attendant Orwellian authoritarianism and demand for centralized control that ruined the internet. The internet used to be much more independent and less controlled.
“...a plan created by experts and individuals from across the world to make sure our online world is safe, empowering and genuinely for everyone.”
That’s a threat, right there.
I am so sick of that word, Democracy.
We are a Republic.
Even our side uses that word.
THAT translated to 'the lowest common denominator'.
No other nation in the world other than the United States has The First Amendment.
World consensus would mean no First Amendment protection.
Is it a force for good?
Silicon Valley and the Deep State are increasingly using it to addict us and brainwash us. Look at the media now, it is basically all Fake. And they don’t even bother to pretend any more, they just project their Fake reality on us more and more.
For which the "Republic" stands
We urgently need an ambitious, coordinated effort to tackle the threats facing the internet and the web, and make sure that everyone is able to access the benefits of digital technology. Next month, we’ll publish the Contract for the Web — a plan created by experts and individuals from across the world to make sure our online world is safe, empowering and genuinely for everyone.
...y'know, as long as they agree with us all the time, and don't use "hate speech" like racism, homophobia, gun rights, property rights, or advocate for anything but open borders.
Back in the 90s as a teenager, I used to find all manner of insane stuff via dial-up AOL. Early 2000s was full of us college guys just trolling and flame-baiting in the name of just having a good laugh on pre-social media forums.
Now you are lucky that you can even say that you love your nation without getting banned on some part of the web.
The future needs a replacement to the World Wide Web protocol. that is the only way to get out of this mess.
lol
Ah. Brings back memories of my youth and the first naughty picture I looked at that took 20 minutes to download. :)
A lot of good things and a lot of poison has been unleashed from online
Exactly...
How hard is that?
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Posted on 10/30/2019 10:00:49 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3790170/posts
“Next month, we’ll publish the Contract for the Web”
Why not put out a draft for public comment?
Evil prefers the darkness.
“Is it a force for good?”
It is if people stop thinking that social media and apps = the internet.
Before that stuff, we went to individual websites that didnt have Google’s hooks in them or “sign-up with Facebook” requirements.
FR is the only website that I visit that is still EXACTLY like its web 1.0 version, and it feels more open than any of these bloated megasites.
Much, much good has come from the WWW. Recall September, 2016 when a presidential candidate was videoed literally being thrown into a van by handlers.
Were it not for the web, that video would never have seen the light of day.
And Trump wouldn’t be President today.
Yup. The web used to be really fun, entertaining and informative, it was always cool to find a new corner of the internet.
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