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    World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, now the CTO of Inrupt, speaks at Web Summit 2022 in Lisbon on November 4, 2022.

    Tim Berners-Lee Wants to Enable Internet Users to Own Their Personal Data

    "You need to get back to a situation where you have autonomy, you have control of all your data," says the inventor of the World Wide Web.

    Kenny Stancil
    Dec 19, 2022

    The creator of the World Wide Web is on a mission to reinvent it and protect personal data from Big Tech.

    "I think the public has been concerned about privacy--the fact that these platforms have a huge amount of data, and they abuse it," Tim Berners-Lee, who developed the concept of the web in 1989, told CNN on Friday. "But I think what they're missing sometimes is the lack of empowerment. You need to get back to a situation where you have autonomy, you have control of all your data."

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    When Will the US Stop Being a Backward Nation on Broadband?

    Let's join the rest of the developed world and bring competition to the business of providing the internet to our homes and businesses.

    Thom Hartmann
    Dec 16, 2022

    Perhaps you've noticed there are several new phone companies offering very low-cost cell service, some for as little as $5/month. There's competition in the cellphone space that's driving down prices and driving up service, at least in many parts of the country.

    Why are phone and internet service price-competitive around the world but here in America that competition is limited to cell phone service?

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    Dems Accused of Caving to 'Rabid' Telecom Industry Smear Campaign Against FCC Nominee

    "Where's the leadership?" Fight for the Future asked Democrats. "Do what you said you would do."

    Jessica Corbett
    May 06, 2022

    Supporters of Federal Communications Commission nominee Gigi Sohn and other critics of the telecommunications industry's efforts to thwart her U.S. Senate confirmation this week called out not only those behind the smear campaign but also Democratic leaders.

    "Dem leadership is nowhere to be found defending their nominee."

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