World Wide Web Creator — then and now - video Dailymotion

The World Wide Web was created 30 years ago — but its creator is sharing his concerns about the downward slide of the internet today.

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00:00For the people who are online, whoops, the web is not the web we wanted in every respect.

00:08The engineers who are designing the protocols ought to be thinking about social, political

00:14questions about basically a constitution for the web.

00:26And then on the heels of that were people who were more serious about it and wanted

00:29security, they worried about confidentiality, worried about the integrity of messages, spoofing.

00:36To work really, really hard to keep it open and free like we always have, keep it, fight

00:41for neutrality, but also think about other aspects, privacy, think about owning control

00:48of your own data.

00:49What about hate sites with nasty political, but people, nasty people exercising their

00:56right to free speech.

00:58One part of the worry is that because, is that the legislative system tries to take

01:05hold of this and just hit it and start basically gnawing away at people's constitutional rights.

01:12Whenever somebody's asked me about what the biggest, my biggest fear is, I think I've

01:16always said that some company or government or combination should end up controlling the

01:21web.

01:32The internet runs over a network known as the internet, which was designed to be bomb-proof.

01:36It was designed to be decentralized.

01:38And the great thing about that is it will run pretty, once it's set up, it runs pretty

01:42much without the possibility of intervention on a grand scale.

01:46If we spend a whole certain amount of time using the internet, we have to spend a little

01:50part of it, a little proportion of that time defending it, worrying about it, looking out

01:54for it.

01:55Do me a favor, will you guys, fight for it for me.