WWW in trouble?

The British inventor of the World Wide Web warned on Saturday that the freedom of the internet is under threat by governments and corporations interested in controlling the web. Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist who invented the web 25 years ago, called for a bill of rights that would guarantee the independence of the internet and ensure the all user's privacy. Berners-Lee said at the London "Web We Want" festival on the future of the internet: "If a company can control your access to the internet, if they can control which websites they go to, then they have tremendous control over your life." He poses a question to his audience: If a government can block you going to, for example, the opposition's political pages, then they can give you a blinkered view of reality to keep themselves in power. Governments and big companies have become aware of the temptation that controlling the internet has. Berners-Lee has called for an "internet version of the Magna Carta," in reference to basic rights and freedoms being guaranteed. 

I am so glad that the creator of the WWW has spoken to this issue. A lot of people joke constantly about how the NSA is monitoring everything we say, and comments towards them like they were reading it themselves, but the fact that the USA government actually tried to put that system in place is wrong on so many levels. The internet should not be controlled in anyway shape or form, but as Berner-Lee put it himself "some things are of course just illegal, child pornography, fraud, telling someone how to rob a bank, that's illegal before the web and it's illegal after the web." These things will always be wrong, and can be removed/punished justly. That said, in no way shape or form should anybody have any control over the internet.