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What does Sir Tim Berners-Lee know that we don’t?

While all the talk of the consumer being in control dominates conversation about the impact of social media, the inventor of the Internet is worried that “undemocratic forces” could take control.

Here is the introduction to the BBC article:

The British developer of the world wide web says he is worried about the way it could be used to spread misinformation and "undemocratic forces".

Maybe Sir Berners-Lee has just re-read Orwell’s 1984 and sees potential for a new Ministry of Truth and Thought Police to inject Newspeak into the Internet.

Looking at the controversy over Google agreeing to censor itself in order to provide service in China, maybe he has a point.

Posted by Jim Nail on November 3, 2006 at 01:59 PM | Email this post Permalink

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