Tim Berners-Lee slams Facebook

Mon Nov 22 2010, 17:40 PM

Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networks are threatening free speech and the original "egalitarian principles" of the internet, according to the founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee. "Large social-networking sites are walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the Web," says Berners-Lee in an article for Scientific American, which says that such trends could lead to a web of "fragmented islands". Berners-Lee also criticises internet service providers considering charging websites a premium for faster bandwidth and governments that monitor online activity.

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