Dan Sullivan, there is nothing wrong batting back what you don’t like or don’t agree. But civilized people have to bat back with reasons and logic not hell I just don’t like it, since i don’t have a clue what it is.

Mr. T. Wallance, in case you don’t know, a lot people do earn money by selling drugs/med for sick children, does that make those people insufferable human being? Think again?

The point, what the outcome is not who will get profit. Off course every act in the world has something in return, so obviously Mr. Walsh may have monitory profit. Every technology/security has way around it, that doesn’t mean we have to sit back and put our hand on the ass. We have to seek better technology, that’s where innovation come from.

So why not you guys propose something better? If not, why not just say we don’t understand it, and that’s why we don’t like it. Or the best point out the flaws of proposed technology.

Keith G. as far as I recall Content Label was a leaf technology came out from RDF/RSS/XML/FOAF technology endorsed by W3C. So even if Walsh and his company failed to implement it, that doesn’t make it bullshit, Perhaps you got some bright idea too, why not say what u have to offer? Don’t take my word for it; search those keywords in google/yahoo or wikipedia. The OpenID rocking Yahoo, MySpace, Technorati, was based on same technology (Macro format).

So ultimately its pointless discussion, one group trying to say whatever coming from their finger point to defend their mentor (Damien), another trying to show their proposed products goodness.

And Paul, Damien hasn’t built up some kind of dollhouse. Cop on. If web-pages can be coded to say that they are child-friendly or otherwise, then it will be absurdly easy *not* to write that label. The worst people out there will not care about mandates to do this that and the other.

Paul Littlebury would be better off pulling his head out of the chasm and looking around at reality. The reality is that you brand Damien as some sort of angry teenager in a derogatory way, yet these people are the ones that you claim to protect. You are a hypocrite sir, and worse, you are deluded enough to think that content labelling will help children, while their email inboxes fill up with offers of Viagra and Sex.

Finally, Mr. Walsh, don’t you dare stand up for child protection. I don’t know if you have any kids or not, but don’t act like you have a god-given right to decide what’s best for everyone’s kids. I’m in a secondary school, and if teens are not able to figure out for themselves that giving out their mobile phone number is a bad idea, then they probably have other mental difficulties too. Keep your patronising behaviour to your own kids, god love them.

At the moment your offering is smoke and mirrors. You know it, I know it and everyone reading your ridiculous statements knows it. If you are so confident about your offering, why do you have to keep defending it time after time? If your offering is as good as you say, then it needs no defence.

In my opinion, your content labels will protect no one. Technology has been in place for many years to detect and block unwanted content. All of these technologies use much more sophisticated methods of detection. A simple opt-in tag will prevent nothing.

Instead of pushing reams of ridiculous statements at people, maybe you should sit back and research what people want from your offering. Maybe instead of telling people what they need, you should take a step back and listen to the drivers.

The final decisions will come down to the people who will implement the technology. If implementers feel that your offering is going to hurt them in any way, they will run a mile. You will not succeed if you keep showing disadvantages in using your offering! ID3 tags worked because they gave you more, not less.

Like I said, it appears as if you have little to no knowledge on the subject matter. May I suggest you do a little homework before hurling insults at companies and people? Alternatively you can continue to look like a fool in front of those of us who have a little knowledge in this area.

Child protection bullshit? Wow, I didn’t think even you could stoop that low. I had some respect for you only because you appear to have built a little community… I now think otherwise (unfortunately). You should try to act a little more professional instead of sitting behind a blog, assuming that you can act like a child playing around with wordpress.com after hearing about it on CBeebies .

Funny how it is yourself and right wing christian zealots who use the whole “thinking of the children” excuse to sell your wares. Be it shutting down free speech, burning crosses, or selling software that “protects” children for only €9.99 a month, there’s always something to guilt trip the general population in order to gain money or power with the dafault excuse being “You mean, you are against child protection?”