Long Live the Web Response

Tim Berners-Lee in his article “Long Live the Web” points out few issues that the world wide web has been facing these days. Since there is no doubt that web has made a profound impact on human interaction in today’s society, protecting its fundamental principles can prevent serious problems and foster evolution and innovation. 

First, preserving egalitarian principles allow us to have freedom to access information that we want. By supporting decentralisation feature, we can share information without needing any authorization. Secondly, we can also prevent companies that are trying to create isolated architecture and sell users’ information and limit their accesses by supporting URI, which provides interconnected information space, and net neutrality, which protects users’ right to access any information online,

Furthermore, supporting open standards and separation of web and internet layers, and projects that allow users to create their own websites from their own servers can also foster new inventions and free speech on the internet and prevent a company from becoming a monopoly, which most likely will limits creation and innovation.

This article does not just let us be more aware of how protecting web fundamental principles is important, but also arms us with the knowledge so we can make right decisions, support companies and projects that actually care about their users' right. I also believe only with the knowledge, we can uncloud our vision so we will able to spark more innovations and eventually secure the future.