Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee calls for 'fight' against hacking and abuse on its 30th birthday
Tim Berners-Lee acknowledged that"many people feel afraid and unsure if the web is really a force for good," in a letter published for his World Wide Web Foundation on Monday."While the web has created opportunity, given marginalized groups a voice, and made our daily lives easier, it has also created opportunity for scammers, given a voice to those who spread hatred, and made all kinds of crime easier to commit," the letter added.
"Read MoreThirty years later, around half the world's population is online -- but tech giants that dominate the internet, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, have been criticized in recent years for failing to stem the spread of misinformation and harassment on their platforms.Berners-Lee identified three major"sources of dysfunction" affecting the web: deliberate malicious intent, system design and unintended negative consequences of benevolent design.
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