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You have a good point about giving it a positive connotation like that, but a name like Jefferson would be cumbersome, too. Perhaps something like SafeNet. Just
by nextparadigms 15y ago
You have a good point about giving it a positive connotation like that, but a name like Jefferson would be cumbersome, too. Perhaps something like SafeNet. Just think about it, even when someone would hear something like that they'd be intrigued.
"Oh? Safenet?Is it like a safer Internet? Interesting. Where do I find it?"
Plus, you could almost see what the news headlines would be like: "Government tries to take down the Safenet". "Government wants to make Safenet illegal", "Why the Government doesn't want you to be Safe online", "What's so wrong about wanting to be safe online?" etc
Pretty much anyway you'd spin it, it would make the Government the bad guy. Why do you think RIAA names bills like "Protect IP", which is about censoring the Internet, or Homeland security wanted to make the SHIELD law, which is about catching whistleblowers and such. They named them so anyone who "dares" to go against them would be looked at as the bad guy. "How could you want to stop something like SHIELD as its name??"
Naming is not everything, but it can definitely have a big impact on perception of the general population, which is all that matters in the end.