If you love women so much...

I've just seen this superb website, "Speak your brains". The premise is simple: (STEP 1) quote actual comments left by members of the public on the BBC's "Have your say" site. Such as:

Does this mean that ‘anyone’ can effectively stake out my house or the houses on a street? So, for example, if this works in anything like ‘realtime’, a criminal could ‘watch’ my house from his PC (as opposed to lurking about suspiciously), work out my usual routine and then plan his business accordingly. I can think of a lot of other reasons why this and Google Earth could be a very handy tool for certain unsavoury members of society!
Johnny PH, Leeds

(STEP 2) mock them:

I started off feeling a little bit sorry for Johnny and thought perhaps it was too easy to mock someone who doesn’t understand modern technology. Then I realised we’re not talking about someone who doesn’t understand the difference between a router and a hub, or someone who can’t distinguish between emails and webpages. This is someone who not only believes that Google has invented magic, invisible techno-eyes but also imagines that, faced with the chance to virtually visit anywhere in the world, people have decided they’d rather watch some cunt from Leeds going about his “routine”

There is something fundamentally dangerous about the democratisation of opinion that leads to expert judgment being curtailed for the thoughts of the general public. I appreciate how elitist that sounds, but I am speaking as a member of the general public. If I'm watching a news story about heart disease, I would rather hear from a respectable authority on the issue than a token person off the street. Which is why I don't watch the news anymore.