Submission + - Like Democracy, the Web Needs to be Defended, Its (gigaom.com) 1
climenole writes: "Sir Tim Berners-Lee — the man who created the web 20 years ago next month, on his desktop computer in Geneva — says there are threats to the freedom of the web all around us, and that we need to fight them in the same way we fight to protect our freedoms in the real world.
Where are those online threats coming from? Berners-Lee says, “large social-networking sites are walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the Web,” in what appears to be a clear reference to Facebook’s walled-garden approach to sharing things like the email addresses of its users, and he later mentions Facebook specifically as “a silo.”"
Where are those online threats coming from? Berners-Lee says, “large social-networking sites are walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the Web,” in what appears to be a clear reference to Facebook’s walled-garden approach to sharing things like the email addresses of its users, and he later mentions Facebook specifically as “a silo.”"