Posts Tagged ‘rating’

AGB2009: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

This part of the AGB2009 series (see the presentation)
AGB2009: QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES

BACKGROUND

Look around: you will see an increasing role in our complex society for various forms of “oversight”, “audit”, “watchdog”, “rating” entities.

ABSTRACT

The first issue is certainly related to authority and initiation.

If, by consensus, established authorities set up a watchdog, the line of authority is clearly inherited from the source, and the initiation contains also the framework for the potential evolution (or dissolution) of the new watchdog.

But what about some of the pre- and post-Internet self-appointed watchdogs?

UK Culture Secretary proposes to applying a rating system to websites

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Rating websites using the same approach used for movies?

Trying to regulate Internet as if it were a local media could be counterproductive- if at all possible