[Tfug] Truth Ratings For Websites

[John Mc]

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.'"

{1} http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/15/0139207.shtml?tid=95

{2} http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/09/how-to-measure-websites-iq.html