With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.
For years now, Berners-Lee and other internet activists have been dreaming of a digital utopia where individuals control their own data and the internet remains free and open. But for Berners-Lee, the time for dreaming is over.
In an apparent reference to his successor, the former US president said he was worried about the rise of nationalistic views and rejection of ‘science, expertise and logic' in politics.
On Thursday, the subreddit r/911truth was placed under a Reddit Quarantine. The Reddit Administrators claimed that the subreddit posts misinformation and then directed people seeking information on 9/11 to the official government website.
In other news, Google-owned BlogSpot.com wiped out Dr. James Fetzer's website without cause and without due process — they should be part of the class action lawsuit. Fetzer is back up at http://jamesfetzer.org/. Because of government inaction, all of us are being forced to spend thousands of dollars creating hot back-ups and cutting Google, VaultPress (WordPress) and other untrustworthy elements out of the equation.
Kurian’s departure comes just weeks after Oracle announced he was taking a break from his position overseeing Oracle’s cloud efforts, and after Bloomberg reported that a conflict with Oracle co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer, and person whose opinion seems to matter most Larry Ellison over the direction of Oracle’s platform software strategy. Kurian reportedly wanted to let more of Oracle’s software run on public infrastructure clouds like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, which Ellison apparently resisted given Oracle’s feeble attempts to compete in that market.
They are businesspeople, they are good businesspeople. They just represent a set of business practices, principles and ethics, and policies that I don’t necessarily agree with.”