We need to update our laws, regulations and institutions for the digital age, just as the Victorians did for the industrial age
Tim Berners, in this year’s annual birthday letter to the World Wide Web Foundation, controversially raised the prospect of regulating the internet. “Companies are aware of the problems and are making efforts to fix them ……. The responsibility — and sometimes burden — of making these decisions falls on companies that have been built to maximize profit more than to maximize social good. A legal or regulatory framework that…
