Category: Autonomous Internet

Earlier today Julian Assange posted this following tweet on twitter.

“I am looking for a decentralized / cryptographic alternative to Twitter. Twitter's freedom of expression has been on an inexorable decline. It is enslaved to its US jurisdiction and politics. Although it is substantially better than Facebook that is a very low standard indeed”.

For the ones who missed it, here is the link….

https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/916214469948248064

Worth a look.

The Sovrin Foundation Network

The Internet was originally designed for one thing – to allow machines to communicate with one another. As a result, machines have identities on the Internet, but people don’t. This stunts communication and trust while adding enormous complexity, costing the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars each year.

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is an identity that is 100% owned and controlled by an individual or organization. No one else can read it, use it, turn it off, or take it away without its owner’s explicit consent. This simple form of identity is private, extremely secure, and goes where you go. This will enable trusted interactions to occur between individuals, institutions, and businesses.

WWW founder Tim Berners-Lee working on a new decentralised web

Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web (WWW), is exploring the idea of a new decentralised version of the web, along with other internet scientists, report New York Times. The Decentralized Web Summit was held from June 8-9 in San Francisco, and envisions a web which is not controlled by corporations or governments across the world.