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19 April 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 03:45 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"RoryBy Rory Cellan-Jones<\/span> Technology correspondent, BBC News<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee: “It’s such an empowering thing to be connected at high speed and without borders that it’s become a human right”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The inventor of the web has said that governments must act to preserve the principle of net neutrality.<\/p>\n

Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the BBC that legislation may be needed if self-regulation failed.<\/p>\n

He been asked by the UK government to negotiate an agreement on an open internet between service providers and content firms like the BBC and Skype.<\/p>\n

Sir Tim would prefer self-regulation by the internet industry, but progress has been slow.<\/p>\n

“If it fails the government has to be absolutely ready to legislate,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It may be that the openness of the internet, we should just put into law.”<\/p>\n

Net neutrality, the idea that all traffic on the internet should be treated equally, has been a controversial issue in the United States and is now moving up the political agenda in the UK.<\/p>\n

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Internet Service Providers have claimed that they need to be able to control the growing traffic online, and content creators fear that the result could be a two-speed internet.<\/p>\n

Sir Tim said that he understands the need for traffic management but any move to discriminate between different content businesses would be a step too far.<\/p>\n

“What you lose when you do that is you lose the open market,” he said.<\/p>\n

“What the companies gain is that they get complete control of you.”<\/p>\n

But Professor William Dutton of the Oxford Internet Institute warned that enshrining net neutrality in law had its dangers.<\/p>\n

“Once you allow the state in, you open the door to all sorts of regulation of the internet controls on content creation,” he said.<\/p>\n

Sir Tim, who was speaking at the opening of the World Wide Web Consortium’s UK offices in Oxford, said that internet access was now becoming a human right.<\/p>\n

At the same time it was also a very powerful tool for either a government or a large company to get to control of.<\/p>\n

He warned that this could lead to users being blocked from visiting sites that were not politically correct, or religiously correct, or commercially correct.<\/p>\n

He also expressed concerns about the Digital Economy Act, passed in a hurry at the end of the last parliament.<\/p>\n

Sir Tim said he was appalled at the way the Act, which includes anti-piracy measures, had been pushed through.<\/p>\n

“We need to establish very strong checks and balances whenever there is power to disconnect somebody given to a government agency,” he said.<\/p>\n

The implementation of the Act has been held up after the Internet Service Providers BT and TalkTalk won the right to a judicial review.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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