The man who invented the World Wide Web has said proposed legislation in Australia that would force tech giants to pay media companies for monetizing news content could make the internet 'unworkable.' If the code is deployed globally, it could 'make the web unworkable around the world,' he said. On Wednesday, Australians woke to empty news feeds after Facebook blocked all media content in a surprise and dramatic escalation of the dispute. How did Tim Berners-Lee invent the World Wide Web? Berners-Lee remains the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the organization which oversees the continued development of the web.

Source: The Nation February 19, 2021 03:00 UTC