Re: RDFa, FUD and ethics

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net> wrote:

>> Then how about a warning along the lines of:
>>
>>  "Drupal defaults to being very open to optimize search
>>  engine results and promote data reuse. You can make Drupal
>>  more closed, but that might lower your search engine rankings.
>>  Here's how to close it up."
>
> Mmmm, I think a "warning" is not what you want, it is education, that data
> that are out there are out there, and it is a good thing. If you want privacy,
> you need more semweb tech (webid, trust networks, etc), not less.
>

+1
Allowing people to "turn off" RDFa seems sort of like giving them the
option to render their pages as jpeg instead of HTML ...

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