Why the Internet has a Problem
A decentralised web was how the web was originally envisioned, but somehow in the past 25 years, it ended up in the hands of a few very powerful companies. As Sir Tim Berners-Lee said during the Decentralised Web Summit in 2016:
“The web was designed to be decentralised so that everybody could participate by having their own domain and having their own webserver and this hasn’t worked out. Instead, we’ve got the situation where individual personal data has been locked up in these silos.”
Over the years, the objective of a distributed network of nodes where everyone would be able to participate for the betterment of humanity has been lost with many centralised companies - such as Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and WeChat – offering centralised services while removing fundamental freedoms such as consumer data ownership rights, privacy and security. Too often, consumers become the victim of malpractices of large organisations, not taking care of the customers’ data, leaving their customers vulnerable.
In addition, non-democratic governments use this centralised web to censor freedom of speech on a daily basis. On a regular basis, countries block important websites such as Wikipedia because there is an article they do not like. Finally, trolls from private organisations ...
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“The web was designed to be decentralised so that everybody could participate by having their own domain and having their own webserver and this hasn’t worked out. Instead, we’ve got the situation where individual personal data has been locked up in these silos.”
Over the years, the objective of a distributed network of nodes where everyone would be able to participate for the betterment of humanity has been lost with many centralised companies - such as Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and WeChat – offering centralised services while removing fundamental freedoms such as consumer data ownership rights, privacy and security. Too often, consumers become the victim of malpractices of large organisations, not taking care of the customers’ data, leaving their customers vulnerable.
In addition, non-democratic governments use this centralised web to censor freedom of speech on a daily basis. On a regular basis, countries block important websites such as Wikipedia because there is an article they do not like. Finally, trolls from private organisations ...
Read More on Datafloq
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