Re:Google Buzz? More Like Buzz Kill
by FluidDjango on Thursday February 11, 2010 @09:19AM
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> I tend to believe that when you trust people, they try very hard to be trustworthy.
Maybe "people" (individuals) do. Yet this trust is exactly what black-hats tap when they social engineer an email recipient into visiting a malware site.
Now it can be discussed whether temporary censorship is a good pedagogic tool, which is the heart of the disagreement here, but the seatbelt analogy doesn't hold water.
I personally tend to believe into responsibiling rather than censorship, because:
- most censorships don't work well and get healthy kids to react against them; there's nothing worse than foolishly relying on a censorship that doesn't work.
- I tend to believe that when you trust people, they try very hard to be trustworthy.
- Our society is deresponsibilising everyone (it's the microwave vendor's fault if you're dumb enough to microwave your cat); giving a sane sense of responsibility to my kids is probably one of the best competitive edge I can give them in life.
- I'm ideologically libertarian when it comes to ideas, free speech and communications (not so much when it comes to economy, but that's off-topic)