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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.'"
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?
Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.
Christians believe that the truth is that an imaginary man in the sky created the universe, Earth, and all life most especially people, in six days about 6000 years ago. All the evidence says that is untruth.
Does the creationist website get marked truth or untruth?
Does the website putting for the scientific evidence of evolution get marked truth or untruth?
Can they both be marked truth even though they are mutually exclusive?
Who gets to decided?
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
You're a douche. The previous sentence is true.
10 minutes working on a sig. What a waste.