Tim Berners-Lee has denied Vladimir Putin’s claim that the Global Network is a CIA project

The “Father” of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, looks to the future of the Internet with hope

An interesting comment was received from Tim Berners-Lee regarding the words of the President of Russia, delivered at the media forum of the All-Russian Popular Front. Then Vladimir Putin called the Internet a special project of the CIA of the USA. “You know, all this arose at the first stage, at the dawn of the Internet, as a special project of the CIA of the USA. But anyway, initially this is a military program, a special program, and it is sitting in the center, this part of the special services, ”said the president.

Tim Berners-Lee, one of the founders of the World Wide Web, decided to comment on this statement in an interview with Reuters . The scientist explained that the World Wide Web has never been a project of the military, although it was created with the money of US government agencies.
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The development of the project was carried out by scientists for scientists (at the very beginning). “The academic community is the one who decided to unite universities with communication lines. The project was carried out by intelligent people with good intentions who thought it was a good idea, ”said Berners-Lee. Even if we take into account that the project was funded by the US Department of Defense, the universities were involved in the implementation. Plus, the CIA is not part of the US Department of Defense.

In his speech, Berners-Lee mentioned that the right to use the Global Network should become the inalienable right of every person, and both commercial organizations and politicians should protect this right.

According to the World Wide Web Foundation, Russia is now in 35th place in the ranking of countries for open access to the Network. The leader of the list is Denmark, the last line is Ethiopia.

Tim Berners-Lee stressed that it is impossible to create a network, all of whose members would be kind and good. All were good and bad people. Network developers can only make it as open as possible so that all participants can freely exchange information.