The Web vs. the World By the time the World Wide Web turned thirty, it had converted into the earth’s most important structure — supporting everything from love letters to revolutions, commerce to culture, particular journals to geopolitical power struggles. But with similar growth came a reckoning Who owns the Web? Who gets to decide how it works? Where do particular freedom, commercial interests, and state power collide and who makes the rules? For Tim Berners- Lee, the answer had always been simple — but noway easy “ The Web belongs to all of us. No bone should control it.