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Open web initiatives Project Liberty and Solid could be teaming up


Two initiatives to create a more open web, where users are in control of their own digital identities and data, may be coming together. At SXSW 2025,

Two initiatives to create a more open web, where users are in control of their own digital identities and data, may be coming together. At SXSW 2025, entrepreneur Frank McCourt, whose Project Liberty is developing open internet infrastructure (and is throwing its hat in the ring as a potential buyer for TikTok), announced that his organization has been in discussions with internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee about an integration with Solid, his open source project aimed at giving people control over their own data. Though he didn’t announce an official partnership, McCourt suggested that discussions were underway on a future collaboration.

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