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Tim Berners-Lee says internet access should be a basic right
Failing to provide universal access means losing opportunities to serve humanity, he says.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, writes in a new post on the internet’s 32nd anniversary that governments must work to ensure global broadband access by the year 2030 in order to bridge the digital divide and better hold tech companies accountable.
“Governments need to pass effective laws that govern technology and hold companies to account for creating responsible products and services,” Berners-Lee writes in the post co-authored by his Web Foundation co-founder Rosemary Leith.
“Far too many young people remain excluded and unable to use the web to share their talents and ideas,” the post states. And for every young person without internet access, there’s a “lost opportunity for new ideas and innovations that can serve humanity.”
► ► REMEMBER – I WAS ON THE INTERNET BEFORE THERE WAS A WORLD WIDE WEB!
► ► I’VE DOCUMENTED THE DIGITAL DIVIDE AND THE RAMPANT FRAUD SINCE 1998
THE PANDEMIC EXPOSED WHAT A LOUSY JOB THE PHONE COMPANIES DID WITH THE GAZILLIONS OF DOLLARS CHARGED FOR THEM TO BUILD OUT TO THE INTERIOR – THE LAST MILE – TO THE TOWNS WHERE PEOPLE ARE TOO POOR TO PAY FOR IT -AND- HOW IMPOSSIBLE THEY MADE COMPETITION FROM ANY OTHER RURAL OR CITY BUSINESSES WHO WERE COMPETENT AND COULD RIVAL THEIR CONTROL.
THE FUCKING FTC AND POLITICIANS WHO GOT THEIR COIFFURES FILLED ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN YEAR AFTER YEAR. FUCK COMCAST – AT& T – FRONTIER – VERIZON ETC.
THE PUBLIC HAS PAID MORE THAN ENOUGH OVER THE PAST 30 YEARS. IT SHOULD BE FREE TO ALL. AND THE PHONE / CABLE COMPANIES SHOULD NOT GET PAID 1 MORE CENT FOR HIGH SPEED INTERNET.
- Everybody should cut their Comcast Cable and Switch
- Comcast bad infrastructure can’t compete with Verizon!
- Tales from Comcast’s data cap nation: Can the meter be trusted?
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the Communications Act of 1934 DIGITAL EQUITY “Everyone has the right to education.”
Article 26 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 12/10/48
The law that established the Federal Communications Commission and remains its fundamental charter.
First paragraph of Section I: “. . . to make available so far as possible to all people of the United States without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, a rapid, efficient, nationwide and worldwide wire and radio-communications service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges.”