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Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings For Websites
holy_calamity writes "While introducing the new World Wide Web Foundation Tim Berners-Lee made also asked for a system of ratings to help people distinguish truth and untruth online. 'On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly,' he said, saying that 'there needed to be new systems that would give websites a label for trustworthiness once they had been proved reliable sources.'"
...a truthiness rating!
There. Now you know.
slashdot's been wrong in the past.
Can you just imagine all the poor people who are heavily confused about the state of affairs in Soviet Russia after reading slashdot? How were they to know that these things were untrue!?
which is totally what she said
In Soviet Russia, truth rates YOU!
Waitaminit....that's almost how it should be...
Quick! Someone hide kdawson!
We'll get started on it as soon as we finish the semantic web.
Can you just imagine all the poor people who are heavily confused about the state of affairs in Soviet Russia after reading slashdot? How were they to know that these things were untrue!?
Wait a minute. This is just a special case of internationalization!
1. Check visitors IP
2. Look up geo-position
3. Serve up localized truth
4. ???
5. Profit!!!
She made the willows dance
No, those are statistics...its different.
Sorry Mr. Twain.
Virginia is for lovers. EVE is for griefers.
Ok, let's truth rate (True or False answers only) the following sentence in this post:
"This sentence is false."
I'd have to give it 3 trues out of 5 possible.
She made the willows dance
Neah you rate them as Confirmed, Plausible or Busted. If in doubt on which of the three that are applicable you contact Myth Busters.
"I have downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records, why would I care if somebody downloads ours?" Robin Pecknold
Easy!
>UFO
False
> paranormal phenomena
False
> Christianity
True
> Islam
True
> Scientology
False
> acupuncture
True
> homeopathy
False
> OS feature debates?
False
Next!
Please dont go against the groupthink on diggdot. Until then, I have no choice but to bury your comment and then reply to it flaming you.
It is a well known fact that George Bush used dozens of Cops with Tasers to bring down Richard Stallman for Smoking Legal Pot for his Melanoma. We should ban Tasers, Bush, Cops and vote Paul/Stallman for 2008 (Paul is still running, the MSM just lies about it).
Also, the moon landing is a hoax, 9/11 really happened on 9/12 but the Pepsi bottling company wanted it moved a day to sell more soda so the fat cats in Washington fucked with the calandar to make it so (this is true, there have been several other diggdot stories proving it...), and Diebold stole every election since Hoover.
Now digg my comment *up* please--if not for stating the obvious, but for its inner truth.
At what point did Berners-Lee appoint themselves Rulers of the Truth?
Shortly after aquiring multiple personalities?
This comment is for entertainment purposes only. Any similarity to real insight or information is purely coincidental.
It would be far more efficacious to push for a critical thinking and debate class requirements in grade and collegiate level schools.
But if everyone was good at critical thinking, I wouldn't be special anymore. The advantages which put me in a higher economic rung than most people in my age-group will no longer be advantages...I will be a commoner again...relegated to the same mundane jobs that the rest of them are.
That sucks. I think I would prefer for most of the populace to remain stupider than me, even if it means putting up with DRM and evil governments.
I want hese ratings on PEOPLE. They need to be endorsed by the official Ministry of Truth.
This law is enacted retroactively, yesterday.
Those not conforming to official truth records are subject to reformation and compulsory psychological medication.
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Never been known to fail..."