[Tfug] Truth Ratings For Websites

[Calvin Dodge]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM, John Mc <jmcneill2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings For Websites
> Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 16, @09:38AM
> from the that's-a-lie dept.
> http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/16/1239213.shtml
>
> "While introducing the new World Wide Web Foundation{1} Tim Berners-Lee made also asked for a system of ratings to help people distinguish truth and untruth online.{2} '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.'"


Proved reliable?  Who is the authority that determines the proof? If
it's some web-based voting system, will it be any more reliable than
Wikipedia? What if someone who is "proved reliable" is actually
running a stealth campaign, and planning on using the "reliable"
reputation as a way to snooker people?


I respect Berners-Lee for his contributions to the Internet world, but
he sounds awfully naive in this case.

Calvin Dodge