Sir Tim Berners Lee, the computer scientist widely credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989 says that access to the internet should be a basic human right.
A recent report shows there are billions of people, around four and a half billion, who can't get online and that government controls, surveillance and censorship are on the increase.
Tim I know you've got your own barrow to push but there are billions of people out there with no food or shelter, to my mind much more of a human right and necessity.
Let's get our priorities sorted...
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Anything that allows 'control' is going to be held on to tightly by the controllers.
ReplyDeleteFood, shelter, water & communication are right up there on that list.
. . . but I thought Al Gore invented the Internet?
ReplyDeleteEvidently not Sixbears but I hear he speaks very highly of you...
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