• Long Live the Web: Scientific American – Tim Berners-Lee Annotated

  tags: internet reform change

  • the Web is yours. It is a public resource on which you, your business, your community and your government depend. The Web is also vital to democracy, a communications channel that makes possible a continuous worldwide conversation. The Web is now more critical to free speech than any other medium. It brings principles established in the U.S. Constitution, the British Magna Carta and other important documents into the network age: freedom from being snooped on, filtered, censored and disconnected.
  • this process is completely under our control. We choose what properties we want it to have and not have. It is by no means finished (and it’s certainly not dead)

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