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Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings For Websites

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-lie dept.

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.'"

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  1. Just what we need... by cabjf · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...a truthiness rating!

    1. Re:Just what we need... by Nasajin · · Score: 4, Funny

      Clearly you don't understand truthiness. I don't need a rating, I know the answer in my gut.

    2. Re:Just what we need... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd mod you +1 truthy (but I could be making this up).

    3. Re:Just what we need... by QZTR · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Which, if I am correct..."

      You're aren't correct.

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    4. Re:Just what we need... by chebucto · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm with you. In fact, I'm taking Latin classes at the moment so I can finally avoid vulgar tongues entirely.

      The language of Shakespeare is too recent an invention for my tastes; it's the language of Cicero for me!

      And for anyone who might find this viewpoint absurd, keep in mind that I'm not taking it too far, like those Sanskrit-only types.

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    5. Re:Just what we need... by corsec67 · · Score: 4, Funny

      yo wassup

      i no what u mean ppl keep judgng me on how i right ppl shld quit jugdng me on hwo i right

      (Gah, I hate myself for writing that)

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  2. This article is not true. by mraiser · · Score: 5, Funny

    There. Now you know.

  3. I don't know if I believe this... by IceCreamGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    slashdot's been wrong in the past.

  4. Re:I can get you ratings readily enough... by Notquitecajun · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, truth rates YOU!

    Waitaminit....that's almost how it should be...

  5. Slashdot getting a truth rating? by MistaE · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quick! Someone hide kdawson!

  6. Re:Where's the "goodluckwiththat" tag by ROBOKATZ · · Score: 4, Funny

    We'll get started on it as soon as we finish the semantic web.

  7. Re:This will never work by cthulu_mt · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, those are statistics...its different.

    Sorry Mr. Twain.

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  8. Re:Truth rate this post by I+cant+believe+its+n · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  9. Bury by coryking · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  10. Re:And Then What? by rugatero · · Score: 4, Funny

    At what point did Berners-Lee appoint themselves Rulers of the Truth?

    Shortly after aquiring multiple personalities?

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