Unfortunately, Mr Burnham doesn’t know anything about the Internet and seems to be arguing by analogy, and with a childlike hope that merely wishing for something will make it come true.
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Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.
He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.
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If Wishes Was Fishes
I might have been (marginally) premature in my suggestions for ways around the proposed government e-fishing expeditions. Others with far more experience than I are pointing out the absurdities of Andy Burnham's proposals, to particularly comic effect in places:
