So we’ll all be expected to rate our websites according to some externally imposed criteria. This should help with the (no)cleanfeed. Just think of how well it will work if all they have to implement is a simple check of the rating. Of course, unrated pages will probably be rejected so there goes 99% of the web. It would be trivial, I suppose, to include nocleanfeed as a category for rejection. There goes Twitter! And this blog.[1]
I mean, come on! Whose standards are we talking about? Why should I or anybody else, for that matter, be bound by the vagaries of political … vagaries. It’s just a stupid fucking idea![2]
I know, I can’t use that as an argument and have any credibility. I guess it’s time to start writing my next paper about the implications of censorship on education[3]. I really should do a Google Scholar search and check out the fabulous Libertus.net. I know there’s a lot I don’t know. But that applies to almost everything.
I’ve started a single page wiki to try and gather all of the issues. Sort of like a summary of things that would need to be covered. I thought about using action research, but it would be action research about the web, if that’s even possible. I’m not sure. My action research books are at work and I’m on leave[4].
This will build on my previous post about Evidenced Based Research, because that phrase just darned-well pisses me off!
- not that too many people would notice, but I digress. [↩]
- Oh noes, I forgot to include a language warning! [↩]
- not that I’ve completely finished the last paper about censorship and literacy [↩]
- so why am I thinking about writing, oh yeah, the rest of the year is taken up with teaching! [↩]
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censorship, education, nocleanfeed