Sir Tim Berners-Lee is to offer reputable websites a kitemark, to help web users work out that they are trustworthy and reliable. The father of the web is to launch the scheme via his
World Wide Web Foundation
, which begins its work in 2009.
This is, of course, completely bonkers. Why has it come about? Because of a bunch of cults, that’s why...
The Shredder was shocked to read recent comments from Tim Berners-Lee, the Godfather of the internet, who questioned the authenticity of blogging and of people’s behaviour online. “Bad things” might happen, says TB-L.