Duh
Cant think of anyone less suited to the job, what ever next
Eric Schmidt in charge of all our medical records?
Mark Zuckerman in charge of homeland security?
Gordon Brown joins World Wide Web Foundation
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has buddied up with the Greatest Living Briton by becoming a director of the World Wide Web Foundation. The venerable Dr Brown, as he is repeatedly referred to in a statement released by the WWWF yesterday, will advise the foundation on ways to bring poor communities and world leaders closer …
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Friday 3rd September 2010 19:19 GMT cannon
Police State
Why do i automatic think this is a bad idea after tony & gordons 10 year destroying our civil liberties?
Taking Liberties (Since 1997)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3351275215846218544
FTA: "TAKING LIBERTIES is a shocking but hilarious polemic documentary that charts the destruction of all your Basic Liberties under 10 Years of New Labour. Released to coincide with Tony Blair's departure, the film and the book follow the stories of normal people who's lives have been turned upside down by injustice - from being arrested for holding a placard outside parliament to being tortured in Guantanamo Bay. THIS IS WHAT YOU DON'T READ IN THE PAPERS! THIS IS WHAT YOU DON'T SEE ON TV! AND IT'S HAPPENING TO YOU!"
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Friday 3rd September 2010 20:32 GMT Chronos
Meh...
"I support Web Foundation’s mission to promote the advancement of the web, as well as access to it, especially in Africa where the web can act as a catalyst for economic growth.”
He's had one of those "Dear freind, how are you?" type e-mails promising him zillions in unclaimed government funds. Can't you tell?
Dear Gordy,
until they bloody well pack it in, we want as few Africans, particularly Nigerians, on the 'net as possible, capice?
Sincerely,
World+Dog.
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Friday 3rd September 2010 20:32 GMT Gary F
Lost all respect for the WWW Foundation
How could they appoint such an unsuitable man for this position? I thought okay, he messed up the county while in power, but at least he can't lay a finger on the web because it's internationally controlled. And now this happened!
Brown is a control freak. He's now in a position to influence controls on the web. For a man who has little experience of technology this is a very bad decision.
Maybe if I screw up repeatedly someone will give me a prestigious directorship. That's how it works isn't it?
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Tuesday 7th September 2010 08:16 GMT Arthur Dent
Why not...?
"If we're including the Dr tag, why not just refer to him by his proper first name, James?
That's right, his actual name is James Brown. "
It may surprise you to know, Mr Isurrenderall, that in a large part of Scotland and some of Northern England the name normally used is the middle name, not the first. If that does surprise you, please evaluate whether you are an ignorant and arrogrant bigot with neither knowledge nor respect for cultures other than your own provincial prejudices. If it doesn't surprise you, what reason did you have for posting nonsense?
Anyway, everyone knows that Gordon Brown is a failed Chancellor, a failed Prime Minister, a failed Party Leader, and a widely reviled and disliked character. So let's not call him James Brown - doing so might let him escape his deserver reputation. There you go, I've answered your stupid question twice for you now.
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Friday 3rd September 2010 20:32 GMT Neil Greatorex
!em kcuF
Should have known G. B. Ruin had an appropriate degree:
"a PHD in History relating to the Labour socialist movement"
Ranks right up there with Bachelor of posting crap twatter comments.
When are we going to learn? There should not be ANY "career politicians". <- Full stop. Terry Pratchett had it right in one of his books: Anyone *wanting* to be a politician should be immediately put in jail, as they must be corrupt just for the act of *wanting* to be a politician.
Getting a degree in "how to climb the greasy pole" should automagically bar the recipient from entering politics.
Look at what the recent results, of not barring the bastards, has been: Blair, Brown, Bush, Clinton, Twice disgraced Mandelson, etc. et bloody cetera.
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Friday 3rd September 2010 20:33 GMT Anonymous Coward
Two things...
Unemployed? I know he doesn't turn up at Westminster much, but he is still an MP with the salary and expense fiddling that go along with the job.
As for him joining the WWWF? Do they really want someone that one-eyed?
Mine's the one with the copy of "A Journey - My Political Life" in the pocket....
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Friday 3rd September 2010 20:33 GMT Tequila Joe
Has Gord had 419 emails from Nigeria?
[What he says -- What he thinks we'll believe -- What we actually think]
"No more boom and bust" -- No more bust -- Bust and busted!
"uniquely placed" -- Gord's in control so we're doing ok -- We're xxxxed! UK is only G20 nation still in recession (http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=495125&in_page_id=2)
“Africa is a new source of dynamism in the global economy,” -- Gord knows better than us so we should advance him the cash -- Well sure, it probably is now! Please, somebody, stop him getting his hands on it.
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Tuesday 7th September 2010 10:05 GMT Anonymous Coward
Thumbs down but ...
... not one mention of a worthwhile PHD. They all have silly titles. They are all niche. They all (okay probably not all) bring something to our culture. Perhaps y'all just think that anything non-techie is worthless. The inability to see merit in that which you don't understand is why geeks get beaten up at school.
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Friday 3rd September 2010 23:31 GMT Tin Foil Hat
He gets paid but does not attend.
Since the 6th of May Gordon has a 0% attendance record
http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=Gordon_Brown&mpc=Kirkcaldy_and_Cowdenbeath&house=commons&display=allvotes
Lazy sod can't be asked to turn up but still expects us poor saps to pay his salary and expenses. What a complete fraud he is.
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Monday 6th September 2010 08:59 GMT IanPotter
RE: He gets paid but does not attend
Wow, anybody would think that with a Labour leadership election under way it would be better for him to be staying in the public eye and trying to influence its result rather than doing the honourable thing and staying out of the limelight. Instead he could be out sinking in the knife and hawking his self aggrandising and revisionist memoirs like Bliar.
Of course he did win his seat by a whopping 23,000 votes so maybe after being in high office for 13 years maybe he's decided to spend some time with his constituents and young family too.
Oh, and I do love the hypocrisy of someone posting under a pseudonym calling anyone a fraud.
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Friday 3rd September 2010 23:30 GMT stewski
Neutral Web Karma IMHO
I'm no fan but I believe Brown did get an agenda of publishing Ordnance Survey and other publicly funded data sets available via the web and Semantic Web.
On the flip side he pushed the awful digital economy bill through the washup to.
As for the other stuff from Iraq (he told paxman it was to support the UN which is amazing double speak) to the economy I don't blame the WWWF for not having an opinion on those.
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Friday 3rd September 2010 23:35 GMT SkippyBing
Africa is a new source of dynamism in the global economy
Yes, look at the way they're dragging the World out of recession with their economic dynamism, even now I sit hear watching my Nigerian TV while my Zimbabwean car sits outside.
No wonder our economy is f**ked if he's actually that clueless.
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Monday 6th September 2010 08:25 GMT Anonymous Coward
Africa a new source of dynamism
To give him his due Africa has huge natural resources that the Chinese are keeping a close eye on? (I've a vague memory that some of the minerals mined there are crucial for mobile phone/electronics manufacture....) Its also got more human genetic diversity than Europe so whilst it might not be obviously dynamic now it has massive potential..... A better person than Brown to do it - George Osborne would spring to mind....
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Monday 6th September 2010 08:45 GMT Anonymous Coward
WTF? Ex-PM for WWWF - has TBL the GLB lost the plot?
Only someone with an ego the size of Dr B's would have a PhD in subject matter he enthusiastically tried to turn into nothing but a historical footnote.
Given his track record we can expect his enthusiastic support for a multi tier internet, with bankers getting most of the bandwidth and fastest service (uk.gov subsidised natch), the middle classes getting 90% of what's left (although they'll have to lie about where they live/join the church, but they will get a heavy subsidy for "excellence"). The rest (former labour voters with nowhere to go politically) will have to pay the market rate (competition is always good) for the teeny piece of net slow lane they've been generously allocated*, although they may find it suffers occasional outages if the resources are needed to subsidise the bankers lunchtime grumble flick habit**.
Oh yeah, Africa. Maybe he fancies a fucking another country up - Zimbabwe perhaps? They don't actually hate him there.
* Connections may be monitored for intimidation and prosecution purposes
**Connection quality can go down as well as simply very slowly - see Digital Britain T+Cs
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Monday 6th September 2010 08:58 GMT Tom Oliva 1
AAAAIIIIEEEEE ... Nooooo-oooo-oooo
The one eyed lying deluded Caledonian snotgobblin ... ventures forth ... I demand a drugs test of the board of WWWF.
The man is an embarrassment - a doodieing idjit, a pompous fool, a berk, a nutter - a man with a record of screwups that should put him in "Record Breakers"
What pray, do they believe he is going to bring to the organisation apart from ridicule (in spades)?
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Monday 6th September 2010 09:29 GMT Sarah Bee
Re: AAAAIIIIEEEEE ... Nooooo-oooo-oooo
Yeah, fine, but you rather let yourself down with the whole 'one-eyed' thing. If you want to have a pop at someone it's generally best to restrict yourself to the aspects of themselves that they have some control over, at the least. That whole 'mocking the afflicted' tack is... tacky.
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Monday 6th September 2010 11:41 GMT Anonymous Coward
Poacher turned Gamekeeper?
Brown presided over biggest erosion of privacy and civil liberties in the UK since WW2.
Is he now being paid to advise the WWWF on the tactics and methods he used to spy on, monitor and control the population so that they may be avoided in the future.
Its the only reason I can think of for TBL (or anyone else) having anything to do with him.
Or does he think he's starting a new career as a professional wrestler?
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Monday 6th September 2010 15:42 GMT dephormation.org.uk
Extraordinary
Gordon Brown... the man who conspired with BT/Phorm to undermine the integrity of the web (not to mention the UK telecom infrastructure as a whole) - despite police complaints and a petition to Number 10 - is now appointed to join the WWWF?
I recall Sir TBL stated; "I am embarrassed as a British citizen that this [Phorm] is happening while the US has drawn a very firm line to stop this" and "what's at stake is the integrity of the internet as a communications medium" and "it is essential to have absolute clarity that it is illegal".
Badgers, because only they know what on earth a man with Gordon Brown's record could offer WWWF.
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