By unambiguously taking this side of a highly partisan political issue, I fear TBL has lost a lot of credibility in the eyes of many of the people he needs to fix the actual problems that have befallen the web.
I don't read anything in the article which I would consider political, or taking a "side" other than admitting the issues mentioned exist. Nowhere is any specific political party or ideology mentioned or blamed.
I don't know why TBL would lose credibility, or what he would lose credibility in, specifically.
While I do think that this is a very real problem that should be addressed somehow, I think Tim Berners-Lee should stop making useless statements to capitalize on being "the inventor of the Internet". It just feels more and more like a celebrity chiming in an issue to get public appraisal and I think it just adds noise for the people actually working on the problem.
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I don't think this is the way to remedy that.