The problem of lies (much less spam) being propagated using the internet has been brought into sharp focus by Tim Berners-Lee's comment that the web needs a rating system. This article is a good discussion of the problem. "Within the Digg and YouTube communities exist sub-communities that make clear an honest debate even harder. There's the long fabled 'bury brigades' on Digg that group along ideological lines and will bury anything that contradicts their world-view before it has a chance to be seen by a wider audience." I think that we will see this wherever we have a centralized system, which makes questions of power and control compelling. My own preference is for a distributed system. But that won't solve the problem magically either.
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