Web needs rethink to stop 'nasty' ideas spreading, says its creator

Reuters ^ | 10 April 2017 | Jemima Kelly and Huw Jones |

[Garth Tater]

If posting BS on the internet was not anonymous, much of the BS would cease.

That is actually part of their plan for taking back control of the internet. Non-anonymous posting would allow them to use all their social controls (job pressure, public shaming, threatening your family members, and many other means) to stop the flow of information that wakes people up to what is going on. They screwed up bigtime by not taking the net under control when it first appeared on the scene and that action was still possible.

[archy]

The World Wide Web needs a complete rethink to prevent spying and the spread of "nasty, mean ideas" on social media websites, its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, said on Monday.

Either that, or a series of antitrust and racketeering lawsuits to break up their monopoly the way AT&T was broken into regional carriers.

Or, we could just imprison all the company executives and employees for ten years. But then we'd have to feed them.

18 U.S. Code §ection 241 - Conspiracy against rights

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; . ... .
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They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

[lbtbell]

London-born?

That’s all you need to know.

[KarlInOhio]

to prevent spying and the spread of "nasty, mean ideas"

Aren't those mutually exclusive. To prevent spying you need an anonymous, heavily encrypted internet which is then open to more "nasty, mean ideas" whether the nasty idea is that government power should be reduced or that Hillary eats babies for breakfast. To be able to eliminate those ideas you need law enforcement spying on every action on the internet no matter where in the world it is done. Freedom or control, choose at most one.

[Lisbon1940]

TBL developed the WWW on a NeXT computer.