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A comment on Tim Berners-Lee on 30 years of the web: 'We can get the web we want' (2019).

Re:Tim Berners-Lee on 30 years of the web: 'We can get the w... by 8bitsrule on Thursday December 31, 2020 @03:47PM (#25596936)
Important topic, very poorly-written article. It's as If the author wanted to disguise what Tim's ideas are.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee on 30 years of the web: 'We can get the w... by musicale on Thursday December 31, 2020 @06:54PM (#25598765)
Like this bit of bizarre nonsense which ignores the existence of HTTPS and conflates communication privacy with walled gardens and user lock-in:

"the very idea of accessing core swathes of Facebook’s platform from a web browser was deprioritised, in favour of the extreme privacy provided by universal end-to-end encryption"

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