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"Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, is calling the National Security Administration's Internet surviellance program \"shocking\" on a little-known social platform called State.\nPRISM is \"an affront to right of privacy, and an overreach of government power,\" Berners-Lee wrote in the opening post of a thread on State, which is still in closed alpha with a few thousand people. The vast majority of other State users who have posted in the thread agree with Berners-Lee's characterization, per the site's data.\nSEE ALSO: Tim Berners-Lee: NSA Surveillance an 'Intrusion on Basic Human Rights'\n\n\"Before anyone realized that PRISM had become a thing, Tim, who's in our system and an advisor to me, got on State, created the topic PRISM and then Stated about it,\" State founder Alexander Asseily told Mashable. \"But then what's interesting is there was a whole bunch of responses that can be summarized in the infographic [below].\"\nState, which was announced only a few weeks ago, allows users to post ideas and opinions and get instant feedback on those thoughts. State can then \"pull together those views very quickly, and is able to reflect those back,\" Asseily said. \nFor a better look at Berners-Lee's State thread and users' reactions to it, check out this infographic via State:\n\n\nImage via iStockphoto, Bim"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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