Last year, when the Internet turned 25-years-old, scientist Tim Berners-Lee said, “Our [online] rights are being infringed more and more on every side, and the danger is that we get used to it. So I want to use the 25th anniversary for us all to do that, to take the web back into our own hands and define the web we want for the next 25 years.”
Berners-Lee may have been speaking for every Internet user out there — as of 2014, that’s 40 percent of the world’s population — but he’s a little more important than you or me. He is, after all, the man who invented the world wide web and then opened it up to all of us, instead of selling it to a few companies and making millions for himself. So if there’s anyone who should have a say on how the Internet is treated, it’s Berners-Lee and here’s what he had to say about net neutrality last year:
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