The Dhaka Times Desk The inventor of the World Wide Web accused the Conservatives of spreading misinformation during the general election campaign.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee described this as renaming a Tory Twitter account masquerading as a fact-checking body. "It was really brave," he said in a statement. It was unbelievable they would do it. Factcheck was converted to Tory press office account CCHQ during a live TV leaders' debate on Tuesday. The new nomenclature remained in place for the duration of the hour-long debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn. No one will be fooled by the Conservatives' move, he said.
But Sir Tim said the renaming was disguised. Don't do it and don't trust people who do. He went on to compare it to what happens when someone impersonates someone for the purpose of deceiving them. Sir Tim said, "What the Conservative Party has done is clearly an astonishing disgrace."
Various reports revealed that the Conservative Party had not responded to requests from the BBC for comment on Sir Tim's criticism, but had previously insisted that the Twitter account belonged to the party and had always been public. The web's creator has called on Facebook to stop allowing targeted political ads. He made a personal appeal to ban company founder Mark Zuckerberg before the election. Sir Tim said that all this subtle manipulation through targeted ads is not right to risk democracy by promoting completely false ideas. They do this just before the election, and then disappear.
Aiming for the future
He was speaking as he unveiled the Web Pact, an effort to bring together governments, organizations and individuals to shape a better future for the world online. The agreement sets out nine principles to prevent misuse of the web and protect it as a force for good. This includes making the internet freely available and affordable and respecting consumers' privacy and their data. A handful of countries were involved in creating the deal, with companies including Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Sir Tim admitted that countries such as China and Russia were unlikely to sign up to the scheme. He also acknowledged that the United States might not be too keen on a document that emphasizes the importance of net neutrality, the principle that internet providers should treat all net traffic equally.
possibility
The Trump administration wants to repeal net neutrality rules brought in under President Obama. "The current administration has shown no interest in signing up to such a policy," he said. But he noted that elections are coming up in the UK and US and urged people to talk to the candidates about the Webb deal. World at the CERN particle physics lab near Geneva
Thirty years after the creation of the Wide Web.
Later Sir Tim admitted he was concerned about the way it had evolved in recent years. He is unsure of any optimism about what happened next and says if optimism is seeing a place where it can be, that is very empowering for individuals and humanity. I am very hopeful that our message will get there. The Web Foundation, which has spent the past year drawing up the detailed clauses behind the agreement for the Web, is now optimistic that more governments and companies will work to sign up to it, he said.
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