Comments on: http://danbri.org/words/2008/01/19/256 the web, the world, us, you and them Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:48:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/index.en.html http://danbri.org/words/2008/01/19/256/comment-page-1#comment-13471 http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/index.en.html Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:14:46 +0000 http://danbri.org/words/2008/01/19/256#comment-13471 This reminds me of recent interview with a neo-nazi in a Norwegian newspaper. The journalist asked if the Internet was important to them, and he responded "if it wasn't for the Internet, I'd have to kill you." Driving this underground is not the solution. In fact, this was one of the motivations I had for getting involved with Semantic Web in the first place, we need mechanisms to annotate objectional content, not for censorship, but for expressing an informed opinion that people have a chance to find. This is also one of the motivating use cases for for POWDER. This reminds me of recent interview with a neo-nazi in a Norwegian newspaper. The journalist asked if the Internet was important to them, and he responded “if it wasn’t for the Internet, I’d have to kill you.”

Driving this underground is not the solution. In fact, this was one of the motivations I had for getting involved with Semantic Web in the first place, we need mechanisms to annotate objectional content, not for censorship, but for expressing an informed opinion that people have a chance to find. This is also one of the motivating use cases for for POWDER.

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