Tim Berners-Lee (web creator) on misleading information
With the growing popularity of sites promoting cults and false accusations on anything from science to politics , it can be very hard for some to distinguish fact from fiction .
This article discusses such problems with excerpts from the creator of the world wide web.
A possible solution that I have just thought about could be applied to search engines, where recommendations are shown beside search engine results.
The recommendations could require full details of the person/group that recommended the link.
Wikipedia was something that got many skeptics provoked and a citizendium grew up from that where you must submit full name and other details…
Of course this would need web engines to be open , with many or most of them money is the major objective over content, this could be very hard in reality to implement.
This is not censorship at all, its just someone’s or groups recommendation of a site. All non-recommended sites will still be available. Sites that’s are recommended do not go any higher up on the search results. If a non-recommend site gets at the top, then so be it.
Comment from David Gerard
Time September 16, 2008 at 10:25 am
Larry Sanger of Citizendium, ex-Wikipedia, proposed this before as well.
PICS pretty much whatwg {at} lists.whatwg(.)org/msg09555.html" rel="nofollow">died of lack of interest. A third-party rating system strikes me as much more workable – it would be set up and contributed to by those who care, and authors wouldn’t have to be relied upon to add anything to their pages.
I think the main thing the idea needs now is some running code.