There is no "off switch" for the internet, says the British inventor of the world wide web – and that is a good thing, because it could only be undone by governments around the world coordinating to turn it into a centralised system.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who launched the first web page on Christmas Day 1990, was speaking at the launch of a global league table showing which countries put the web to work best.
His "off switch" comments came after concerns were expressed last year that the former Egyptian regime led by Hosni Mubarak had suppressed the use of the web to try to damp down the revolution that eventually overthrew it.
Berners-Lee, 57, said: "The way the internet is designed is
very much as a decentralised system. At the moment, because
countries connect to each other in lots of different ways,
there is no one off switch, there is no central place where
you can turn it off.
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