The Guardian has done it again. Last year the British news organization broke the Murdoch phone hacking scandal with weeks of reporting no American paper could do. Now its doing the same for the web. It's called the "Battle for the internet".
Five days of reporting so far. I just found out about it today, so it will take me awhile to catch up. And five days doesn't mean five articles. One could spend hours reading everything in the special section that appears on the guardian's website. This is why a paper in Manchester, UK, previously known only for the world's most famous soccer team, is now one of the most read news sites in the world.
Among the articles in this section is an interview with Tim Berners-Lee. Who is he? Without him, you are not reading this. He is the founder of the World Wide Web. That's right, Mr WWW. himself. Or rather Sir WWW.
There are articles on government censorship, the "walled gardens" of Apple & Facebook. The copyright wars in the US & western Europe. And how the general user is effected. This is important work & highly recommended to anyone who uses the internet.
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