Freedom of the Press
In an interview on the BBC with Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the web), the reporter asks the following question:
For some reason I don't think it's likely that a reporter for one of the major U.S. news sites would phrase a question quite that way. And this was an interview on the BBC, a British state-owned corporation that one thinks of as quite conservative.
Most Americans have no idea of the kinds of things that appear in regular daily newspapers like The Sun or the Mirror in the U.K. (The Sun, for example, very famously has a naked girl on Page 3 every day). They make even tabloids like our N.Y. Post look pretty tame.
You must reflect though on the law of unintended consequences because it wasn't remotely ever your intention when you started on this that so much of the web would be given over to sexual exhibitionists masturbating in their bedrooms with webcams. Do you ever have bad moments about that?
For some reason I don't think it's likely that a reporter for one of the major U.S. news sites would phrase a question quite that way. And this was an interview on the BBC, a British state-owned corporation that one thinks of as quite conservative.
Most Americans have no idea of the kinds of things that appear in regular daily newspapers like The Sun or the Mirror in the U.K. (The Sun, for example, very famously has a naked girl on Page 3 every day). They make even tabloids like our N.Y. Post look pretty tame.
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