Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook threatens Web, Beware

[katty]

more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/22/tim-berners-lee-facebook-threat-_n_786855.html

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, warned that social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Friendster constitute one of "several threats to the Web's universality," arguing that such sites create "closed silos of content" that may threaten the Internet's status as a "single, universal information space."

In an article in Scientific American, Berners-Lee argued that the openness of the Internet is at risk and must be defended lest we "lose the freedom to connect with whichever Web sites we want."

"Some of most successful inhabitants have begun to chip away at its principles," wrote Berners-Lee. "Large social-networking sites are walling off information.

[Uncle Joe]

1. Tim makes some good points and the article is well worth the read.

Thanks for the thread, katty.

[femrap]

2. As a basic

Luddite, I appreciated his article.

[smiley]

3. I thought....

Al Gore invented the internets.

:evilgrin:

[Zoeisright]

4. That's right, just keep repeating the right wing lie.

A little bit of research wouldn't hurt you.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

[smiley]

5. I'm sorry

for some reason I thought whomever responded to me might be able to recognize the devilish sign as also a sarcasm tag. Obviously not. I guess I need to be much more self explanatory.

BTW.... snopes:headbang:

have an awesome day!!

[Recursion]

7. What bothers me is that you equated "Internet" with "World Wide Web"

The Web is just a small part of the Internet.

[smiley]

6. your comment hurt

much more than the research