The Cesspool of Cyber Society

“Bullshit and hysteria have a long and proud history on the internet, one that should never be under-estimated”

I read this quote today in a forum & after being dragged through the anal cavity of the Web today, it has to be the most refreshing statement I have heard for eons!

Dodgy SEO’s, incompetent web designers, and unreliable web hosts combined to form the bowels of the Internet. This is where unsuspecting users are getting lost in the slums. Roads that lead to undesirables. Highways fall into ruin from the pressure. Infrastructure crumbles at our feet.

So how to we save these lost people. We can shout them directions, but unless the understand they get even further lost. We can put ourselves on a pedestal as the best, but that just makes it further for us to fall. Or we can show them our badge, take their hand and guide them through the dreggs of society.

What is this crazy woman talking about you ask???

Licensing! There has to be something that shows the public that you can be trusted. A mechanic has to be licensed, so does an electrician, a builder a plumber. I’m not talking about formal qualifications. A License that says you can do as you claim.

There are mega bucks exchanging hands for websites & their infrastructure, with unsuspecting clients not knowing that they could not be getting what they pay for.

A license wont save the day, but it may provide street lighting so that it gives the unsuspecting user a fighting chance!