Why I gave the world wide web away for free

Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web in 1993 by combining internet and hypertext technologies, then convinced CERN to donate it to the public domain because he believed it would only succeed if everyone could use it freely. Today, he argues the web is no longer truly free as large platforms harvest users' personal data to sell to commercial brokers and governments, turning users into products. He advocates for new technologies like Solid that give individuals control over their data, and calls for urgent AI governance to prevent repeating social media's mistakes.