Creator of the Web sees a need to warn people away from twoofer websites

[negativ]

Well, sorta.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7613201.stm

Sir Tim told BBC News that there needed to be new systems that would give websites a label for trustworthiness once they had been proved reliable sources.

"On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable," he said. "A sort of conspiracy theory of sorts and which you can imagine spreading to thousands of people and being deeply damaging."

"Stundie Stamp of Shameful Credulity"?

"This Site is Gravy-Approved" (with a disembodied Gravy head giving a wink and a thumbs-up gesture)

What sort of labels would you use?


And more importantly, what did Sir Tim know, and when did he know it? What sinister role did he play in 9/11?

[Ripley Twenty-Nine]

How about teaching the users of the 'net to search more effectively? How about some more education around critical thinking in our schools?

Do we really need arbitrary labels stuck on websites based on the abstract concept of 'trustworthiness'?

Who gets to decide that, say, the official website of the American Democratic party is more trustworthy than the website of the Republican party?

Gee, what could possibly go wrong with this idea?

[Jontg]

Eh, it's like most good ideas--sounds awesome in theory, but in practice you always wind up with space lizards ruling the world.

[Drudgewire]

What sort of labels would you use?


I'd use a "trust seal of approval," with a picture of a seal balancing a ball on his nose cuz that's so cute. http://www.lethalwrestling.com/upload/keke.gif

[Gazpacho]

That kind of falls apart the moment the nutballs start up their own rating system.

[dudalb]

Bad Idea,since in the end the ratings will represent the prejudices and opinions of the people doing the rating.
Frankly, the people likely to fall for woo sites are not likely to pay any attention to the ratings anyway.

[Ripley Twenty-Nine]

Bad Idea,since in the end the ratings will represent the prejudices and opinions of the people doing the rating.
Frankly, the people likely to fall for woo sites are not likely to pay any attention to the ratings anyway.
Or they'd be actually drawn to the sites labelled as 'untrustworthy'.

"These are the websites that THEY don't want you to know about!"

[Pardalis]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee? I thought it was Al Gore who invented the internet!

Disinfo!

[Alareth]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee? I thought it was Al Gore who invented the internet!

Disinfo!

The webz iz not teh internetz

[doobiedoright]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee? I thought it was Al Gore who invented the internet!

Disinfo!



No but he did invent man made global warming!:jaw-dropp