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Goes right along with the multitude of conservative websites being hacked at the moment.....
Posted on 09/21/2008 12:22:44 PM PDT by Delacon
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee is proving once again that British de-Nazification programs really should have been applied to more folks than just Lord Haw Haw.
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Uh, huh. And the limits proposed by Berners-Lee and his World Wide Web Foundation.
The internet should be completely free of any regulation.
Period.
While I would like to see the WWW clean up it’s act...
Why? Why is the web seen as a homogenous entity which should measure up to some level or standard regarding what is found there? It seems this has become a standard view, and is reflected in many discussions or comments made on the TV (an old outdated and "one way street" information source) regarding the "danger" of "new media" such as blogs. Nobody ever seems to wonder or question why people are assuming that blogs, or anything else of that sort online, should be seen as related in any way to "old media."
The WWW is not a news source or an organization with a reputation to protect. It is like a library, in that it brings together many disparate pieces of information of vastly varying ranges of trustworthiness. It is up to the reader to be careful and avoid credulity, and not the library to impose something like that. In another way the WWW is nothing but the town square, or local tavern, where people meet to exchange ideas and thoughts. It is a massive international conversation really. Can you actually go around certifying conversations, or groups of people who are talking, making sure some of them are "trustworthy?" I doubt it, and why would you want to? That is not what such conversations are about really, and more important is the honesty and openness of the participants.
A healthy web is found the same way healthy relationships and discourses are, and that is not through external measurements and enforced certifications. If we would clear up our understanding of what the WWW is, then we could have a much better way of using it, and being a part of it in a way helpful to ourselves and others.
Well said.
Kind of like this?
Don’t give them any ideas. ;)
Web Trustworthyness-—part of the “change” coming from an Obama Administration.....
...part of the Fairness Doctrine legislation!
They can rate to their hearts content as long as they don’t try and regulate it.
that will certify Web sites it finds to be trustworthy and a reliable source of information.
And just what is supposed to make me believe Sir Tim's "certification" prowess? He sounds like just another government weenie trying to worm his way into the middle of a situation that in no way whatsoever requires his presence.
And I suppose he will be doing this from the kindness of his heart and there will not be so much as a suggestion of monetary compensation for his "needed" services?
Make no mistake. Berners-Lee, unlike Algore, is the actual inventer of the WWW. He is also the director of the World Wide Web Consortium. The reason you have to put .edu, .com, .biz at the end of any web address is because of these guys. They just said its so. Now Berners-Lee is going outside this organization to push his “legitimate” standard. This isn’t about rating, its about regulation.
“This isn’t about rating, its about regulation.”
I understand. I also think it is politically impossible to regulate the web.
“I also think it is politically impossible to regulate the web.”
All due respect, have we gotten any chinese nationals posting on FR? Have you found any anti-gov’t chinese websites? Why so?
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