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Berners-Lee identified three major "sources of dysfunction" affecting the web: deliberate malicious intent, system design and unintended negative consequences of benevolent design.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/12/uk/t ... index.html
http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html
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In other words, trolls, hackers and inefficiency, basically. I read this piece too. Had an old British feel to it. The guy has a "Sir" title. The Web seems a bit of a "Frankenstein's monster" (that multiplies). Once unleashed and rolling, I'm not sure how anyone "fixes" it...
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