Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web demands to have a bill of rights or Magna Carta for the use and access of the Internet.

During the "Web We Want" festival held in London on Saturday, Berners-Lee has warned about the ability of government and big companies to censor and monitor what an average Internet user can have access to and which websites they can go to.

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He said that if a company can control one's access to the internet, if they can control which website they go to, then they have tremendous control over their [users] life. The same can be said to the government, as they can block users from going to the opposition's political pages, which can create a bias perspective of what's really happening in the country's political system.

Berners-Lee emphasized that the power to abuse the open Internet has become so tempting both for the government and big companies, thus he is calling for a Magna Carta for internet use to protect the rights and freedom of Internet users against monitoring of a user's online activity by the government or any huge entity.

Issues about online privacy and freedom have arisen since Edward Snowden, a former US intelligence contractor has revealed that the US government has been doing mass monitoring of online activity. In Europe, on the other hand, the approved "right to be forgotten" by the European Union (EU) has sparked cries for possible mass censorship. The right to be forgotten allows individuals to ask search engines (Yahoo!, Google, Bing, etc.) to delete links of information uploaded on the Internet.

Time Berners-Lee is a computer scientist who came up with the idea of the Web 25 years ago. He is currently the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international organization that develops Web standards.

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