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• 03 Nov 08
  

  Elizabeth Wellburn

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• 21 Oct 08
  

  Steve Zachary

  A good article on the future of the web as well as the current environment that threatens its neutrality. Additional notes have been added to further clarify some good points.

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  • Sir Tim told BBC News that there needed to be new systems that would give websites a label for trustworthiness once they had been proved reliable sources.
    

    "On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable," he said. "A sort of conspiracy theory of sorts and which you can imagine spreading to thousands of people and being deeply damaging."
    

  • "So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways".
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  • • "One of the things I always remain concerned about is that that medium remains neutral," he said.
      

      "It's not just where I go to decide where to buy my shoes which is the commercial incentive - it's where I go to decide who I'm going to trust to vote," he said.
      

      "It's where I go maybe to decide what sort of religion I'm going to belong to or not belong to; it's where I go to decide what is actual scientific truth - what I'm actually going to go along with and what is bunkum"

• 06 Oct 08
  

  John MacLean
  • The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, says the creator of the World Wide Web.
    
    Talking to BBC News Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was increasingly worried about the way the web has been used to spread disinformation.
    
    Sir Tim was speaking in advance of an announcement about a Foundation he has helped create that will vet websites.
    
    The Foundation will brand sites that it has found to be trustworthy and reliable sources of information.
• 25 Sep 08
  

  Alain Antone

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  • The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, says the creator of the World Wide Web.
  • Sir Tim and colleagues at the World Wide Web consortium had looked at simple ways of branding websites - but concluded that a whole variety of different mechanisms was needed.
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  • • "I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways," he said. "So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways".
    • Currently only 20% of the world's population have access to the web
    • "Has it been designed for the executive and the teenager in the modern city with a smart phone in their pocket? If you are in a rural community do you need a different kind of web with different kinds of facilities?"
    • The Foundation will also look at concerns that the web has become less democratic, and its use influenced too much by large corporations and vested interests.
    • One of the things I always remain concerned about is that that medium remains neutral," he said
• 20 Sep 08
  

  Ed H Chi

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  Sue Collins

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• 17 Sep 08
  

  Joseph Guarino

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• 16 Sep 08
  

  Henk Nouwens

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  Peter Smith

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  The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, says the creator of the World Wide Web. Talking to BBC News Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was increasingly worried about the way the web has been used to spread disinformation.
  
  

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• 15 Sep 08
  

  chasejw
  • Warning sounded on web's future
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  Kristian Torsten

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  The use of the web to spread fears that flicking the switch on the LHC could create a Black Hole that could swallow up the Earth particularly concerned him, he said. In a similar vein was the spread of rumours that the MMR vaccine given to children in Bri

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  Djiezes Kraaijst

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  • Warning sounded on web's future
  • The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, says the creator of the World Wide Web.
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  • • Tim Berners-Lee said he was increasingly worried about the way the web has been used to spread disinformation.
    • there needed to be new systems that would give websites a label for trustworthiness once they had been proved reliable sources.
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    • the launch of his World Wide Web Foundation which aims to improve the web's accessibility.
    • The Web Foundation will also explore ways to make the web more mobile-phone friendly.
    • The Foundation will also look at how the benefits of the web can be taken to those who cannot read or write.

    • The Foundation will also look at concerns that the web has become less democratic, and its use influenced too much by large corporations and vested interests.
      

      "I think that question is very important and may be settled in the next few years," said Sir Tim.
      

    • "One of the things I always remain concerned about is that that medium remains neutral,"

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