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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. Sad to say by Van+Cutter+Romney · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sad to say, but that's censorship. Coming from someone I respect like Berners-Lee, I am truly disappointed. Who's to say what is the truth and what is fiction for me? The things on the net are for them to tell and for me to find out.

    Surely, I got duped by all those chain mails but I wisened up.

    Surely, I got all the emails about Obama being a closeted Muslim but I learned better.

    Rating this would be nothing short of censorship and it won't work perfectly which is to say it won't work - period. Look at an algorithm like PageRank which Google bombed so easily. What's to prevent miscreants from messing with this?

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  2. Re:Just what we need... by cmorriss · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're a douche. The previous sentence is true.

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