Father of World Wide Web Launches Radical Startup to Take Back the Internet from Google & Facebook

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Recently I made a comment about this, under somebody's post (I do not recall which post). I found this article aggain and realised it may be of interest to many, so here goes:

QUOTE:

(Matt Agorist) A revolutionary startup was recently announced by the “father of the world wide web” which plans to radically decentralize the internet to give it back to the people.

.....he’s long been at work on a new project to take the web back, described in depth by the business technology magazine Fast Company: https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-lee-tells-us-his-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web

This week, Berners-Lee will launch, Inrupt, a startup that he has been building, in stealth mode, for the past nine months. Backed by Glasswing Ventures, its mission is to turbocharge a broader movement afoot, among developers around the world, to decentralize the web and take back power from the forces that have profited from centralizing it. In other words, it’s game on for Facebook, Google, Amazon.

Apart from the effects on Big Tech as mentioned in the articles, I wonder what the ripple effects will be. Will they expand to affect the MSM? At the least, their stranglehold on the news market should be broken. As to whether they can continue to survive on providing a diet of Fake news, is anyone's guess. Those who are funding them, just how deeply are they willing to be bled?

Here is the source link, which is well worth reading, even if you are not technically minded:

https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2018/10/internet-freedom-breakthrough-father-of-world-wide-web-launches-radical-startup-to-take-back-the-internet-from-google-facebook/

Link for Inrupt: https://www.inrupt.com/

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(Alexander Zenon Eustace)

^{13th November, 2018}

• posted on Steemit: 13th November, 2018