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    „Es ist noch nicht zu spät, das Problem zu beheben“: Internet-Erfinder Tim Berners-Lee sagt, er befinde sich in einem „Kampf um die Seele des Internets“


    „Es ist noch nicht zu spät, das Problem zu beheben“: Internet-Erfinder Tim Berners-Lee sagt, er befinde sich in einem „Kampf um die Seele des Internets“

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/29/internet-inventor-tim-berners-lee-interview-battle-soul-web

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    1. ilevelconcrete on

      Can’t believe the World Wide Web, made with the noblest intentions of mass surveillance, has devolved to what we see today.

    2. Laughing_Zero on

      So who is going to fix it? Certainly not big tech with AI. What was initially created worked well. Then corporations discovered the Internet could be monetized and filled with advertising.

      Albert Einstein: ‚We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.‘

    3. rnilf on

      > “There used to be a sort of mantra that technology was neutral and people are good and bad. But actually, that’s not true of things on the web.

      > “The way you design a website, like Reddit or Pinterest or Snapchat, can be explicitly good.” Or, designed with engagement as a priority, its algorithm can be explicitly bad.

      So many people are just swiping through content that are being spoonfed to them by an algorithm controlled by a corporation that absolutely has malicious intent.

      Their worldviews are being shaped by people who have evil intentions, and they’re just voluntarily allowing it to happen to themselves.

      At least on Reddit, I’m only at the whims of egotistical power-tripping mods when I browse /r/new, before any of Reddit’s algorithms have twisted the feed.

      And I like how he refers to Reddit as a website. Hell yeah Tim, I’m on team „website“, fuck calling this place an „app“.

    4. RipComfortable7989 on

      It’s easy for someone like him to say that shit. For the average person the internet is just a handful of sites. Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Amazon and others like them. All of them have one driving goal: money. And it’s not going to change anytime soon.

    5. Caraes_Naur on

      One good step would be to have the weak, toothless W3C be absorbed into IEEE, IETF, or some other organization that can actually enforce its standards.

    6. AvailableReporter484 on

      I too miss the days of the old internet where we’d just sit around with our friends on the gameFAQs forums, arguing with one another, and calling each other slurs.

    7. JayPlenty24 on

      The first time I ever saw on anything on the internet was when my friend’s brother invited me over to watch videos of people getting beheaded.

      Idk what year that was but I’m pretty sure I was around 8. They were the only people I knew who had the internet in their home at the time, so it was probably in the early to mid nineties.

      I think we are kidding ourselves by pretending like this wasn’t inevitable and the internet ever had purely altruistic potential.

    10. w1n5t0nM1k3y on

      The internet works the same as it ever did. Nothing stopping people from using it in a different way.

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