OpinionThe Internet needs compassion – and I have a solution:
We need to regulate the most addictive algorithms, writes Tim Berners-Lee
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English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)
global system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet
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