The web needs a complete rethink to stop ‘nasty’ ideas spreading, says its creator Tim Berners-Lee

(Reuters) — The World Wide Web needs a complete rethink to prevent spying and the spread of “nasty, mean ideas” on social media websites, its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, said on Monday.
Berners-Lee, a London-born computer scientist who invented the Web as a platform on top of the internet in 1989, said his intention in building it had been for the public to “do good stuff” and share ideas among each other, as was the case with websites such as Wikipedia.
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