The web's inventor wants tech giants like Facebook, Google to be split up

Before breaking them up, we should see whether they are not just disrupted by a small player beating them out, but by the market shifting, by the interest going somewhere else, say Berner-Lee

Silicon Valley technology giants such as Facebook and Google have grown so dominant they may need to be broken up, unless challengers or changes in taste reduce their clout, the inventor of the World Wide Web told Reuters.

The digital revolution has spawned a handful of US-based technology companies since the 1990s that now have a combined financial and cultural power greater than most sovereign states.

Tim Berners-Lee, a London-born computer scientist who invented the Web in 1989, said he was disappointed with the current state of the internet, following scandals over the abuse of personal data and the use