"Long Live the Web" by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, relects the creation of the web and its principles. Berners-Lee believes the web is a valuable source to express democracy and freedom of speech.

Specifically, Berners-Lee's vision entails making web into an universal tool where people are able to create and make links without permission from a "central authority." As mentioned:

any person could share information with anyone else, anywhere

He also mentions a various of different threats to the freedom of the web including:

• "Walled gardens" created by large social networking sites that locks up user data
• Internet Service Providers discrimination
• Governments and corporates violating privacy and human rights with monitoring
• Government and law website censorships

A new fact I learned from this article is that the acronym "URL" (for Uniform Resource Locator) was originally "URI" (which is Universal Resource Identifier).