Tim Berners-Lee is no friend of Facebook, thinks it's trying to monopolise the Internet

September 9, 2016 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Why Tim Berners-Lee is no friend of Facebook | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian

Facebook is what we used to call a “walled garden” and now call a silo: a controlled space in which people are allowed to do things that will amuse them while enabling Facebook to monetise their data trails. One network to rule them all. If you wanted a vision of the opposite of the open web, then Facebook is it – and that's the exact opposite of the open platform Tim Berners-Lee helped create.

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I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

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