Akin to how Wales spouts he made wikipedia when it was co-founding really with Larry Sanger.

As for him concerned about people watching what you do and say and buy on the web, business already do that IRL. They monitor what you buy, when you buy and how you do, by inventory management, tracking, card usage, etc.

The web just makes it easier to get all that information in one fell swoop. But it is still there to be gotten.

And this is the findalmental issue I have with people and computers. That somehow they have it all worked out in their heads that the net is different that real life.

Case in point, children being lured into bad people’s homes. Now in the real world we have nasty people that would love to prey on kids. We tell them:

Don’t talk to strangers (yet we let them chat online)
Don’t accept gifts from strangers (Yet we let them get pics, vids and music)
Don’t give out a lot of info to strangers (Yet we routinely allow them to talk about school, where it is, when it is and if they take the bus or walk home)

It is totally contrary to the real world, yet these nasty ones exist in THE REAL WORLD!

IRL we would never walk up to someone on the street and tell them I am going on vacation to x place between x date and y date and that we’ll be staying in Z hotel.

But it seems more than reasonable to post it publically and then add, and if there are any of you on this social network in the area let me know so we can meet up.

So really who is to blame if IRL we would never give out such info to total unseen people, but we do regularly on the net?

The net is NO different than real life, because it IS real life. With real people, with real feelings, with real lives and sometimes real mental issues.

So to Mr. Berner-Lee, if you don’t want your crap spread all over the net, DON’T give it out.

NO ONE is forcing us to post personal crap or tell people what we bought or where it comes from. If you don’t want it out, be anon, like me.

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