Moderating the Internet

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The Internet has become, having existed for quite a while now, the scene of a spectrum of phenomena, from wonderful to terrorist. In that time, the basic techology for it to function has been fairly constant, with mainly IP6 being the only major development in it's lifetime.
The thought has crossed and settled on my mind: how can we make it better? It surely needs a good whack of medicine sometimes which cometh not from the Western medical fraternity, but from the meanest cop and then the nicest chocolate.
It is possible to stay alive on food and Youtube, which can stave off depression tirelessly, if you like music. There are pleny of great examples of how it benefits our lives.
Yet the reality that exists, that there is a risk in being "on" the Internet, because of less-than-caring operators "out there".
What would making the Internet better involve?
Basically some incredibly powerful being needs to look at it, decide what is "in", and what is "out", and make a list of all the good sites and protect them.
There is a real risk in kicking out all the bad ones all together however. SO to alleviate this waterhammer hazard of shutting off all the bad stuff overnight and expecting things to be all ok in the morning, the answer comes in leaving them there
This avoids the risk of having clumps of hqakcers forcing their way on the well-maintained and gently pooling internet that we would create, making even more nuisance of their presence than ever, becasue, if they still have an outlet, they will exert less pressure, including where we would rather it didn't
There's the case for free speech, and anti-cencorship which always has a field day whenever it is threatened. And free speech means nowadays a lot more than than just saying what you think, but translates into speaking computer languages from which whole software worlds have sprung (and these are typically healthy springs)
It turns out that since the Internet's technoogy is so well established, that being is DNS The Domain Name System is that which converts one's "www.whateveryouneed.com" human-readaible address into the numbers that make up the IP of the destination, those numbers being what the computer actually looks for underneath the mouse, keyboard, and monitor
I am not an incredibly powerful being, but DNS *is*, and is situated perfectly for the task.BR> Here's what I propose:
At the browser end An internet browser can be fitted with a small, password-protected tab at the top right of the browser window, which when clicked on, presents a password text-entry field whuich when entered correctly, shows a small button which is Red when off, and Green when on.
When Off, the broswer behaves the same is does now- you type an address, you get a webpage.
When On, the browser does soemthing different:it enables DNS-monitoring. DNS-monitoring casues the browser to add a new flag to the DNS request (the request to DNS Server for the IP address corressponding to www.whateveryouneed.com) called "monitor"... and this is =1 when you change the little password-protected button from Red to Green

At the DNS Server end THe DNS Server which receives the DNS request checks to see what the value of the "monitor" field of the DNS request is before it responds to the request.
If it is set to 0, then it responds by allowing only non-monitored addresses to be served (all the "out" sites). BUT, if the field "monitor" is set to 1, it only responds with a response if the address is in the list of sites which have been admitted to the list of sites which are "in". OK? Now how do we decide what's in and what's out? Let's talk about websites, feelings, and safety, for a moment.
Some websites have the amazing quality of feeling safe, pretty much all the time. The best example I can call to mind is Wikipedia. eBay feels pretty safe too, and there are plenty of sites - well designed commercial websites which make the consumer feel comfortable enough to get the general idea. Some advertising ramps up the excitement and risk factor, and some makes you calm, some will catch you no matter what you're thining or trying to think, and some will demand you behave while they play.BR> I thought about it and it seems to me one needs to be ready for the unexpected.
So, I thought, if I was a kid of say 8 years of age, and I walked through the living room while a webpage was on a screen, I should be able to notice it without it completely ruining my day.
That seems to be the criteria of the extremely powerful being who can make the Internet better