The inventor of the world wide web has denied there is an “off-switch” which could turn off the internet across the globe.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who launched the web on Christmas Day 1990, said the only way the internet could only ever be entirely shut down is if governments all over the world co-ordinated to centralise the system.
It comes after moves by Egypt last year to suppress use of the web led to speculation that the Hosni Mubarak regime had found a kill switch for the internet.