{"id":98990,"date":"2019-11-25T06:03:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/tim-berners-lee-launches-google-and-facebook-backed-plan-to-fix-the-web"},"modified":"2019-11-25T06:03:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T14:03:17","slug":"tim-berners-lee-launches-google-and-facebook-backed-plan-to-fix-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/tim-berners-lee-launches-google-and-facebook-backed-plan-to-fix-the-web","title":{"rendered":"Tim Berners-Lee launches Google and Facebook-backed plan to fix the web"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has officially launched the Contract for the Web<\/a>, a set of principles designed to \u201cfix\u201d the internet and prevent us from sliding into a \u201cdigital dystopia,\u201d The Guardian<\/em> reports<\/a>. The contract lists nine core principles for governments, companies, and individuals to adhere to, including responsibilities to provide affordable, reliable internet access and to respect civil discourse and human dignity.<\/p>\n

At launch, the initiative has received the backing of over 150 organizations, including tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, DuckDuckGo, and Facebook, and nonprofit groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The Guardian <\/em>initially reported that Amazon and Twitter were absent from the list of backers, however as of November 25th, Twitter\u2019s logo has appeared on the Contract\u2019s homepage. Twitter\u2019s increasing role in political discourse was recently brought into sharp focus after it chose to ban political ads<\/a> on its platform, citing the \u201cchallenges to civic discourse\u201d that they create.<\/p>\n

The contract\u2019s launch comes as tech companies such as Facebook and Google have faced mounting pressure around both the amount of user data they collect, and the ways in which they collect it. The Contract for the Web includes principles designed to prevent this, including a requirement for companies to respect people\u2019s privacy and personal data. If companies do not show that they are working to support these aims they risk being removed from the list of the project\u2019s endorsers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has officially launched the Contract for the Web, a set of principles designed to \u201cfix\u201d the internet and prevent us from sliding into a \u201cdigital dystopia,\u201d The Guardian reports. The contract lists nine core principles for governments, companies, and individuals to adhere to, including responsibilities to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}