Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee: Internet Access Is A Human Right
We're living in a world where Internet access should be as
readily available as water, according to the man who helped
create the web, Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee, who made his
comments at an MIT symposium on "Computation and the
Transformation of Practically Everything," noted that people
have become so reliant on the web that it should be a right to
have access to it, as reported by Network World. "Access to the
Web is now a human right," he said. "It's possible to live
without the Web. It's not possible to live without water. But if
you've got water, then the difference between somebody who is
connected to the Web and is part of the information society, and
someone who (is not) is growing bigger and bigger." He also
noted that the Internet should be stopped from becoming a petri
dish for rumors, and from fomenting conspiracy theories. Part of
the problem is the size of the Internet--the number of web pages
compares favorably with the number of