If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.

If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.