Inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Was Right in 2014 and is Still Right Today, We Need an Internet Bill of Rights

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That's largely because Berners-Lee's employer, CERN, announced to the world in 1993 that the web would be open for anyone to use and build upon, royalty free, forever.

Berners-Lee believes the open web is under constant threat from the governments and corporations that want to control the internet.

"On the 25th birthday of the web, I ask you to join in-to help us imagine and build the future standards for the web, and to press for every country to develop a digital bill of rights to advance a free and open web for everyone," he wrote in a blog post for Google today.

Berners-Lee's proposal is part of a larger campaign, called Web at 25, that seeks to raise awareness of internet surveillance, the need for net neutrality, and the fact that nearly two-thirds of the world's population who don't yet have internet access.

A separate campaign, called the Web We Want, is working on its own international bill of internet rights.

Coders loosely associated with the Indie Web movement are building tools like Mailpile and Twister and the messaging system BitMessage.

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