Seems to me that Sir Tim Berners-Lee would be the best placed person to showcase what he thinks the web should, or shouldn’t be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hence my signing up to this: https:\/\/contractfortheweb.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n It places the various responsibilities at three doors, governments, businesses and individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If we all do the right thing, by this contract, then the web will continue to be the valuable data source it has been for 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If we let situations like “fake news” or other duplicitous mechanisms (factcheckUK anyone?) to pervade the web, then nothing is trustworthy and the web will fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do your bit, sign up and share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PS – read this about what Sacha Baron Cohen has to say re Facebook as well: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-50525884<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seems to me that Sir Tim Berners-Lee would be the best placed person to showcase what he thinks the web should, or shouldn’t be. Hence my signing up to this: https:\/\/contractfortheweb.org\/ It places the various responsibilities at three doors, governments, businesses and individuals. If we all do the right thing, by this contract, then the … Continue reading “Who would know best about the web?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}