The internet as many are aware emerge from projects by the US Military. It was Vince Cerf and Al Gore who facilitated the internet as a global, open, free platform unaffiliated with government or singular agency. Under UNESCO the internet ROAM principles apply in member nations.

ROAM principles are the guidelines that keep the internet open accessible and do not allow single stakeholders such as a government or Corporation or individual. I said to someone in another conversation the u.s. is not a member of UNESCO. They argued that we are part of the UN.

UNESCO is like a working group under the United Nations concerned with education equality. The USA has left that group more than once. Why? Because of alliance with Israel and it's agenda of genocide against Palestinians. The USA has no obligation to follow ROAM principles.

So the fact that so many nations are not part of that agreement including the USA has by definition made the internet itself not a global free and open technology. This is a tragedy in my eyes and should be course corrected somehow. I doubt it will at least in my lifetime.

So while the internet is an international network of connected computers it is not free and it is not open and it is not accessible and often single stakeholder although less so perhaps then other layers of our internet web technology stack if you will.

The World Wide Web was by design meant to be open free accessible and not have singular stakeholders either. Sir Tim berners-lee is an optimist who believed that humans rise to their best. Sadly he has seen the web given freelee so misused it has caused him grave concern.

A lesser human might have given up and I think for a while he did but instead of giving up he began to think about ways we can fix it he's suggested a Magna Carta for the web he has developed a technology called solid which puts control of our content back into our own hands.

Solid is an interesting idea and it doesn't appear that it is a complete solution. Essentially your content would be in a pod protected by encryption with a private and public key only the individual has control of. Add to that a secure end-to-end connection like SSL but not SSL.

His ideas have Merit but I don't know that they are sustainable and we have to think a lot more about this as he is doing and as are others. Putting content control back into our hands and securing our layers of the World Wide Web are if you'll forgive the pun truly solid ideas.

This is, what I dearly love you for, Miss Molly