Worldwide activity is required to handle the web's "descending dive to a broken future", its innovator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told the BBC.
He made the remarks in a selective meeting to stamp a long time since he presented his proposition for the web.
Sir Tim said individuals had acknowledged how their information could be "controlled" after the Cambridge Analytica outrage.
Nonetheless, he said he felt issues, for example, information breaks, hacking and deception could be handled.
In an open letter likewise distributed on Monday, the web's maker recognized that numerous individuals questioned the web could be a power for good.
He had his own tensions about the web's future, he told the BBC: "I'm very worried about frightfulness and deception spreading."
Be that as it may, he said he felt that individuals were starting to all the more likely comprehend the dangers they looked as web clients.
"At the point when the Cambridge Analytica thing went down [people] understood that decisions had been controlled utilizing information that they contributed."
He included that as of late he has progressively felt that the standards of an open web should be shielded.
In his letter, Sir Tim sketched out three explicit territories of "brokenness" that he said were hurting the web today:
noxious movement, for example, hacking and provocation
risky framework structure, for example, plans of action that compensate misleading content
unintended outcomes, for example, forceful or energized discourses
These things could be managed, to a limited extent, through new laws and frameworks that limit terrible conduct on the web, he said.
He refered to the Contract for the Web venture, which he propelled before the end of last year.
Be that as it may, activities like this would require all of society to contribute - from individuals from the general population to business and political pioneers.
"We need open web champions inside government - government employees and chose authorities who will make a move when private segment interests compromise the open great and who will face secure the open web," he composed.
Meandering round the server farm at Cern, Sir Tim Berners-Lee was in a fun loving disposition, recalling how he'd stopped the absolute first web server into the inside's uninterruptible power supply over Christmas so no one would turn it off - just for the entire spot to be shut down.
Be that as it may, as we discussed what had occurred since he presented his proposition for the web 30 years prior - portrayed by his supervisor as "obscure yet energizing" - Sir Tim's state of mind obscured. Over the most recent couple of years, he let me know, he'd understood it was insufficient to simply crusade for an open web and leave individuals to their very own gadgets.
Sir Tim has an arrangement - the Contract for the Web - to return things destined for success however it relies upon governments and partnerships doing their part, and the natives of the web squeezing them to act.
At the point when, as my last inquiry, I asked Sir Tim whether the general effect of the web had been great, I anticipated a cheery answer. Rather, signaling to show an upward and after that a descending bend, he said that following a decent initial 15 years, things had turned terrible and a "mid-course rectification" was required.
His splendid creation has developed into a grieved juvenile - and Sir Tim considers it to be his own central goal to return the web progressing nicely.
Sir Tim's vision was "without a moment's delay idealistic and practical", said Jonathan Zittrain, creator of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It.
It laid on the possibility that a free and open web would engage its clients, instead of lessen them to just being customers, he clarified.
"I see Tim's letter not just as a call to construct a superior web, however to rededicate ourselves deeply standards it typifies," he told the BBC.
Those standards, he stated, included comprehensiveness of access and straightforwardness - the capacity to see and see how web applications work.
