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Worrying' lack of diversity in Britain's tech sector (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 11/14/2018 - 06:32European Union stumbles in plan to levy 3% digital tax on major firms (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 11/07/2018 - 10:37Facebook delays identity checks on UK political advertisers (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 11/07/2018 - 10:18Facebook admits failings over incitement to violence in Myanmar (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 11/06/2018 - 10:18
Tim Berners-Lee launches campaign to save the web from abuse
Tim Berners-Lee has launched a global campaign to save the web from the destructive effects of abuse and discrimination, political manipulation, and other threats that plague the online world. The inventor of the web called on governments, companies and individuals to back a new “Contract for the Web” that aims to protect people’s rights and freedoms on the internet. The contract outlines central principles that will be built into a full contract and published in May 2019, when half of the world’s population will be able to get online.
'Twisted' fibre optic light breakthrough could make internet 100 times faster (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 10/24/2018 - 11:56Op-ed: Facebook and Google are run by today's robber barons. Break them up (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 06:27Dramatic slowdown in global growth of internet access
The Web Foundation is working on an analysis of United Nations data that shows the growth of internet access around the world has slowed dramatically. The striking trend shows the rate at which the world is getting online has fallen sharply since 2015, with women and the rural poor substantially excluded from education, business, and other opportunities the internet can provide. The data shows that growth in global internet access dropped from 19% in 2007 to less than 6% in 2017.