I’m not a huge WW fan, but I’ve seen a few humorous and enlightening comments from him from time to time. Every once in a while I’ll run across someone who follows him regularly, after which I’ll catch up on what good ol’ Wesley Crusher is up to these days and then lose interest again.
Wil had this to say in his article entitled ‘the ghosts in the machine‘, which is largely about spammers and reminiscing about how those of us (myself included) who pre-date the Internet and remembered the days of GEnie and Compuserv (and let’s not forget Gopher and Finger, pre-HTML protocols):
Think of this another way: if we don’t help people understand how to protect themselves from spammers and phishers, how can we expect them to understand the importance of network neutrality?
And you have to give it to him, he’s god a point.
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