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At 30, the web still nurtures freedom of thought

For the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, issued a letter of light against the dark. Despite rising doubts about whether digital systems can still be a force for good, he wrote on March 12 that it would be defeatist and unimaginative to

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