The inventor of the Worldwide Web said that access to the internet should be regarded as a basic human right and criticised growing censorship by governments and commercial manipulation. The World Wide Web Foundation created by Tim Berners-Lee said some 38 percent of states denied free internet use to citizens. Laws preventing bulk mass surveillance were weak or non-existent in more than 84 percent of countries, up from 63 percent in 2013, it said. Moderate or extensive censorship was seen in 38 percent of countries, up from 32 percent in 2013.