CivicActions

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. - Alcuinis

"they betake themselves to violence, and rob and rage and act like mad dogs." - Luther - Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants, May 1525

"Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." - Edmund Burke

Just another hack in service to his masters.

"There’s a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they’d eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn’t true." --Ian Hart

Just because someone is rich or famous (unfortunately the first seems to be more important) doesn't necessarily mean they know more about a particular subject. But it's wrong to trust someone you kdon;t know, too. This is where community-based peer-to-peer reputation services come in to the picture.

Let freedom (of speech) ring! And let the buyer beware. Don't ask others (especially the government) to protect you - educate and empower yourself to make informed decisions. It will help once we have distributed reputation systems; in the mean time, I'll happily muddle through.