Inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, attacks the internet giants...

In an article written to celebrate 20 years of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented it, has issued a call to arms to defend the principles of openness and neutrality on which it was founded.

In the process, he has delivered a shot across the bows of many of the household names that we now associate with the web - brands like Facebook, Apple and Google - which he accuses of threatening the web's openness.

In his article for Scientific American, Berners-Lee sees a number of threats to the web including: More...

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