Dude invented the modern internet and he’s looking at how we use it and is like “yeah nah that’s stupid, don’t do that”
“Instead use this data wallet I made with an AI assistant named Charlie.”
This is one of the few people we all need to pay attention to. Tim Berners-Lee is one of the good ones.
In what way?
I’m not disputing that he’s a nice guy, but “modern social is fucked” doesn’t exactly require genius level thinking.
His contribution was notable in the 80s or whatever but IDK how relevant he is in 2025.
Web proposal stuff wasn’t even done until 90, so it’s a little more recent than it feels. Not much, granted.
www server was a few years later.
W3c, wwwf etc over the 90s-10s had their problems but the need for at least something existed. He’s been putting efforts.
Been a vocal and active supporter for protections like net neutrality.
Yes, I disagree with his views about drm and think he should say and do more and better there. But at least his reasons are clear and there was at least some push back.
The past decade he’s be quieter, but he’s also getting older. It may be in vain, but I am hoping this is just a first step back into pushing for something… anything better.
I doubt he’s a good person.
Not like it matters, in the DDoS era only a few datacenters can survive.
The Internet needs a total revamp.
Uhhh… Your linked article just repeatedly says “this isn’t enough, he needs to go after walled gardens!”…
Isn’t this new one just that?
How is he a bad person for saying “what if we tried improving things a little?”
Yes, it’s not super aggressive like forcing the entirety of the Web into anarchy, but at this point we need any and all improvement.
Unless you have Epstein’s logs showing him a kiddy toucher, I doubt he’s a bad person based on provided info…
My server was down, so I had to manually fetch your reply.
His response is the exact same walled garden everyone has.
By revamp, I meant this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_centric_networking https://wiki.fd.io/view/Cicn
The raw problem is DDoS. How do you mitigate DDoS?
