The 10 commandments of the Internet: What should they be?
Mikey 16 comments
A UN backed Internet conference last week has put forward the question: Is it about time to draft a 10 commandments for the Internet? The most obvious that comes to mind is "thou shalt not spam.
While I'm sure nothing will ever come of this, I thought we could have a little fun with the idea here, so put your thinking caps on and lets us know your suggestions.
I've added the first below.
Jake Farr-Wharton
Wednesday 25th November 2009 | 09:14 AMThou shalt not b tha gayz
Mikey
Wednesday 25th November 2009 | 10:03 AMThou shalt not doubt the importance of open source
Rodney
Wednesday 25th November 2009 | 10:29 AM10. Thou shalt not comment in a youtube-esq fashion.
9. Thou shalt not "click here now to win".
8. Thou shalt not use IE
7. Thou shalt use 1337 5p3@k.
6. Thou shalt not email massive attachments.
5. Thou shalt not try to provide a "clean feed".
4. Thou can has a cheeseburger.
3. Thou shalt not forward chain letters.
2. Thou shalt not spam.
1. Thou shalt not be lame.
Papa
Wednesday 25th November 2009 | 10:33 AMThou shalt no worship any other operating systems than windows. - From microsoft...
Papa
Wednesday 25th November 2009 | 10:34 AMThou shalt not* correction...
Mikey
Wednesday 25th November 2009 | 10:48 AMThou shalt not be evil (except when it suits us) ~ Google
Laiste
Wednesday 25th November 2009 | 01:45 PMThou shalt not feed the trolls.
Gong
Wednesday 25th November 2009 | 02:42 PMThou shalt not worship false idols, such being wikipedia.org.
the being
Wednesday 25th November 2009 | 03:41 PMThou shalt not worship false idols, such as Apple.
aaron
Wednesday 25th November 2009 | 03:43 PMThou shalt not polute the internet with LOL Cats
Mikey
Wednesday 25th November 2009 | 06:57 PM...in response to this comment by aaron. No way!
Anders
Thursday 26th November 2009 | 07:48 AMThough shalt not question the wisdom of Steve Jobs
Gong
Thursday 26th November 2009 | 04:15 PMThou shalt not lust for pr0n
Thou shall not use ridiculous short hand at every opportunity
Thou shall not steal content from other blogs and pass it off as ones own.
Thou shall not ever admit to using bit torrent clients for music and movies
Thou shall not give there cell phone number for any free rewards
Thou shall not give personal info to any one claiming they need to move millions of dollars promising to give you a chunk of it.
Thou shall think before thou types.
Thou shall never pay for porn when there are terabytes available for free.
Thou shall not use stupid things like pr0n or pwned less thou be viewed as an idiot who should have their internet access taken until they earn it.
Thou shall visit Rusty Lime daily
Thou shall not ever again use dial up.
DJ
Sunday 29th November 2009 | 09:42 PM...in response to this comment by Mikey. Those with a monthly quota far beyond what they likely use - without encryption - deserve all the leeching they get. :p
*For the record I live in the Swan Valley (semi-rural) with a 250gig/month limit, and do not leech. O:)
Mikey
Wednesday 25th November 2009 | 09:00 AMThou shalt not steal thy neighbours wifi