Posted on 11/25/2019 7:55:25 AM PST by Olog-hai
If Google, Facebook, Reporters Without Borders, the governments of France and Germany are for it, I’m against it - whatever it is.
I hope it is to block auto playing videos and floating and winking blinking ads.
In Firefox I can go into the settings to block auto playing videos. I use ublock to block ads.
And the world’s chickens will be liberated by a consortium created by Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms
“has released an ambitious plan detailing steps for better online governance, addressing problems like misinformation,”
Sounds like Fascism to me.
re: “Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee”
Did he work at work at (the early) Cisco? Or Sun Microsystems? Did he work at DARPA?
No, he worked at CERN as an IT engineer/technician. He invented HTML so that he could have manuals available at any terminal at CERN, rather than having to lug a wagon-full of them. It was the first demonstration of a cross-platform solution.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Tim Berners-Lee used his brain to solve the problem.
Don't be a jerk. If you read more than one source on him you will discover that his contribution is subject to dispute as well as all the others, which is the point I was making.
“I can only assume he’s working with Al Gore on this.”
I agree. I’m tired of people taking credit for work that Al has done—being the inspiration of “Love Story”, creating the internet, saving the world from global warming (and other hoaxes).
Reading the words and translating from NewSpeak I get: we have to use the Internet to dump Trump and promote leftist ideas.
There were lots of “hypertext” systems, that could have been the WWW, but only special people had access to the people who could make it happen. They took prior art/obvious technology, and put this guy’s name on it.
Even I had a networked hypertext system going — none of it was mine, I just put together the obvious parts. I think every computer science major was doing this.
Hey, don’t forget PT-109! :D
Sounds like two wolves and a sheep are about to vote on who is for breakfast.
“The WWW was created as a graphical interface to what was a very difficult system to use.”
I remember the first time I saw that. You clicked on a thing on the screen and it fetched something from the internet.
I, perhaps like you, consider the internet like the telephone network. It’s the machinery that gets data sent and received. Separately there’s the matter of how it’s used, the snooping, the censoring, the “social media” phenomenon ...
re: “He invented HTML so ...”
From: https://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/book4/ch02.html
Tim bases his HTML on an existing internationally agreed upon method of text mark-up
The HTML that Tim invented was strongly based on SGML (Standard Generalized Mark-up Language), an internationally agreed upon method for marking up text into structural units such as paragraphs, headings, list items and so on. SGML could be implemented on any machine.
Big Tech does not want individuals to decide who to trust.
We don’t need them to tell us. They need to listen.
Apply six degrees of separation. We can find out pretty fast who is trustworthy and reputable with a “user review” model like the rating you give an Uber driver.
Speaking of Facebook:
We knew this was coming....great comments on ZeroHedge on this article...Facebook mission is brainwashing, pure and simple.
Makes his internet scheme immediately suspect...
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