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Tim O’Reilly Wants YOU To Have Some Ethics

by Darren

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Tim O’Reilly, a noted blowhard web evangelist, wants to get bloggers to agree on a set of ethics. He’s pushing the idea hard, despite a good bit of resistance.

“A lot of this is really kindergarten ethics. It’s the adult way to handle this kind of thing. How do we make distinctions between a vibrant, healthy but rational debate versus hate speech and lunatics? I don’t think it’s that difficult and I don’t think any responsible bloggers are opposed to that.”

Both men say a precedent has been set for many bloggers who have already agreed to various acceptable use policies on social networking sites. These sites allow users to “flag” content they deem to be lewd, obscene, harassing or excessively violent or sexual explicit. Other conditions are also listed.

Since it’s “kindergarten ethics”, why bother? What do you think of such a plan?

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