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Affordable access to a universally available communications platform
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The protection of personal user information and the right to communicate in private
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Freedom of expression online and offline
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Diverse, decentralized and open infrastructure
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Neutral networks that don’t discriminate against content or users
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: World Wide Web Needs a 'Bill of Rights'
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web, believes that the online world needs a ‘Bill of Rights’ to help protect users. “Are we going to continue on the road and just allow the governments to do more and more and more control—more and more surveillance?” he said in an interview with the BBC. “Or are we going to set up a bunch of values? Are we going to set up something like a Magna Carta for the world wide web and say, actually, now it's so important, so much part of our lives, that it becomes on a level with human rights?” Berners-Lee insists that the World Wide Web remain a “neutral” medium, one in which users push back against government attempts at increased surveillance. The Web We Want campaign, administered by his World Wide Web Foundation, has pushed public education about the benefits of the open Web, organized around a short list of principles: