The founder of the World Wide Web has condemned Google and Facebook for allowing the internet to become the “world’s largest surveillance network”.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee warned that the internet has fallen into the hands of large greedy corporations and Orwellian governments who are abusing the power of the web for their own gain.
Theinquirer.net reports:
“It controls what people see. It creates mechanisms for how people interact. It’s been great, but spying, blocking sites, repurposing people’s content, taking you to the wrong websites completely undermines the spirit of helping people create,” he said.
“The problem is the dominance of one search engine, one big social network, one Twitter for microblogging.”
“The temptation to grab control of the internet by the government or by a company is always going to be there. They will wait until we’re sleeping, because if you’re a government or a company and you can control something, you’ll want it,” he said.
“You want to control your citizens or exploit consumers. The temptation is huge. Yes, we can have things enshrined in law, but even then it won’t necessarily stop people.”
Berners-Lee continued with this theme in a recent interview with GeekWire. “We’re on the edge of finding that a company can get to the point where actually it will control everything everybody sees,” he said.
“It will decide which friends’ posts and which news articles a person sees, and we realise that we’re talking about one big corporation suddenly having complete control over somebody’s view of the planet on which they live. It’s a constant battle and we are very close to it all the time.”
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PROPHECY 49
“Beware! You Are Like Sheep Being Led To The Slaughter!”
October 2, 2001
Woe be unto MY Churches and Temples, not leading the people to pray against war in America, this World War III will affect every nation in the world. If you’re not doing this don’t call yourself a church. Don’t call yourself MY Pastor, Prophet, Apostle, Teacher, for you’re not hearing from MY anointing if you can’t hear this now. Spiritual leaders, you will answer to “I AM” YAHUVEH for not leading the people to pray against ID cards and other invasions of privacy. You will be held accountable for not speaking out against your freedom and privacy being taken. Freely you are giving it away. Doesn’t America realize what price they had to pay to get this freedom, to keep this freedom? For you will not see it returned again until YAHUSHUA comes again after the Tribulation.
PROPHECY 67
“Meteor Destruction Coming, Pray For A Delay In Judgment!”
December 19, 2002
Your man-made laws now seek to take away your God-Given freedoms I gave America for what you call Home Security. There is no security when people will be treated as criminals, arrested without evidence, judged guilty and executed without even a trial or jury of their peers. Parts of this world already are doing this and America, you shake your head and fingers, and now you are writing laws to do the same? What is the price of privacy? What is the price of freedom to worship? Ask Israel that question for she pays a great price and so have the Christians around the world.
PROPHECY 136
“The HOLY TRINITY Needs to be Comforted Also!”
May 29, 2017
But even [President] Donald Trump said, put an executive order that you are allowed to speak in freedom at this time. Use it while you can. Use it while you can for the time is coming oh so shortly and you’re already seeing it as Youtube censors and Google censors and Facebook censors and every social media—you think I don’t know their names? You think I didn’t know before-hand this is what would be done?
Use your freedom MY children while you. And I speak this warning all over the world. Use this freedom while you can, in any way you can.
PROPHECY 139
“Come Forth Bride of Israel | HOLY SPIRIT Seen!”
April 12, 2018
And if you want to know what an abomination is, LOOK IT UP in your search net. The search [engine] that is going to blot out Holiness one day. And all you’ll see is that what satan wants you to see.