Brewster Kahle—Founded Decentralized Web movement to 'Lock the Web Open' against corporate control
In 2016, Kahle founded the Decentralized Web Summit movement, bringing together technologists to build alternatives to corporate-controlled platforms. He has consistently advocated for baking values like privacy and freedom of expression into the code itself.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Internet & Web Freedom | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| User Autonomy | +toward | secondary | +0.50 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.443 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (medium ×1) × confidence (0.59)
Evidence (1 signal)
Confirms Statement Jun 1, 2016 verified
Founded Decentralized Web movement to 'Lock the Web Open' against corporate control
In 2016, Kahle founded the Decentralized Web Summit movement, bringing together technologists to build alternatives to corporate-controlled platforms. He has consistently advocated for baking values like privacy and freedom of expression into the code itself.