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Australia’s proposed media code could break the world wide web, says the man who invented it – The Guardian
Tim Berners-Lee says the plan to make Google and Facebook pay for news content undermines the web’s ‘fundamental principle’

Australian mediaTim Berners-Lee says the plan to make Google and Facebook pay for news content undermines the webs fundamental principle
The inventor of the world wide web says proposed Australian media laws requiring tech giants Google and Facebook to pay for displaying news content risks setting a precedent that could make the web unworkable around the world.
Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web in 1989, said the draft legislation risks breaching a fundamental principle of the web…
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