Tim Berners-Lee says the plan to make
Google and
Facebook pay for news content undermines the web’s ‘fundamental principle’
The inventor of the world wide web says proposed
Australian media laws requiring tech giants Google and Facebook to pay for displaying news content risks setting a precedent that “could make the web unworkable around the world”.
Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web in 1989, said the draft legislation “risks breaching a fundamental principle of the web by requiring payment for linking between certain content online”.