World Wide Web (www) inventor Tim Berners-Lee expressed his disapproval for Facebook’s per project Internet.org.  He called on web users across the globe to say no to the initiatives such as Free Basics which was earlier known as Internet.org. He made it clear stating things aren’t really free and public unless the exacted initiatives aren’t offering full web access to users when they are using the name of it.

Father of Internet Calls Upon Users to ‘Say No’ to Facebook’s Free Basics(Internet.Org)

Facebook’s Free Basic (internet.org) is facing indignation by a large section of web users across the globe since early day of its introduction. Tech and internet experts have been exaggerating that it violates the rules of net neutrality. Sources add in that Tim Berners-Lee, the father of internet addressing the users of Facebook’s Free Basic (internet.org) said “they should start saying no to it. ”

He made these statements against Free Basic (internet.org)  while speaking about the importance of privacy and the dangers of government snooping in Britain ahead marching on to talk about attempts to offer access to cut-down versions of the Web.

As per the reports of The Guardian, on the eve of 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta father of internet Berners-Lee and the Web We Want festival convoked to produce a Magna Carta for the 21st century. Internet users across the globe are being enlighten by The Web We Want campaign publicizing five fundamental principles for the future of the Web. These five fundamental principles of The Web We Want campaign are freedom of expression online and offline, affordable access to the net, protection of user data and privacy, a decentralised and open infrastructure, and net neutrality.

While the inventor of WWW, Tim Berners-Lee said “In the particular case of somebody who’s offering … something which is branded the internet, it’s not the internet, then you just say no. No, it isn’t free, no it isn’t in the public domain, there are other ways of reducing the price of internet connectivity and giving something … [only] giving people data connectivity to part of the network deliberately, I think is a step backwards.“

Tech experts are arrogating that these are very concerning comments of Tim Berners-Lee. Finding the creator of Internet Tim Berners-Lee, exacting this kind of comments over Facebook’s Free Basic (internet.org) is drawing the attention of web users across the globe. It is being speculated that these comments of Tim Berners-Lee  against Facebook’s Free Basic (internet.org) have been made in an appropriate time when a large section of people worldwide are fighting down against net neutrality.

Founder and CEO of Facebook also exhorted his stand in favor net neutrality debate alleging that proper steps should be taken to make it more acceptable in nations like India which constitutes the largest population of the unconnected. Earlier Mark Zuckerberg said, “the regulatory framework needs to protect net neutrality for consumers and also ensure that companies are allowed to work on new models for stepping up Internet access. There is this big struggle, debate in India now on how you balance these two things and this is an incredibly important debate because India is the country in the world with the most unconnected people.”

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