*grin* Who else would you suggest who could run such a scheme. It would have to be some international body otherwise people would not accept it. I chose the UN because, for all its faults, it's probably the best we have at the moment. Besides, if we were to trash an organization because of some cock-up there wouldn't be many left standing... and certainly no governments...
surely this issue needs to be dealt with across the whole of the web. I feel that what we should do is to have some body (probably part of the UN) administer a tax on all devices which can access the internet this tax then to be distributed to contributors. Of course, coming up with a system to do this would be difficult. Probably it would have to rely on some way of monitoring traffic to sites and then paying them accordingly. A system such as this could recompense distributors while at the same time making the point of access free...
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*grin* Who else would you suggest who could run such a scheme. It would have to be some international body otherwise people would not accept it. I chose the UN because, for all its faults, it's probably the best we have at the moment. Besides, if we were to trash an organization because of some cock-up there wouldn't be many left standing... and certainly no governments...
surely this issue needs to be dealt with across the whole of the web. I feel that what we should do is to have some body (probably part of the UN) administer a tax on all devices which can access the internet this tax then to be distributed to contributors. Of course, coming up with a system to do this would be difficult. Probably it would have to rely on some way of monitoring traffic to sites and then paying them accordingly. A system such as this could recompense distributors while at the same time making the point of access free...