Web site ratings

[David A. Bandel]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:08:28AM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
>  > Folks,
>  >
>  > While I'm on the subject of parental control, has anyone raised the
>  > idea of including in the Apache headers information regarding the
>  > content of websites?  I'm talking about the G/PG/PG-130/R/X ratings
>  > that movies have, only encoding that in the headers coming from
>  > websites (totally voluntary and done by the webmaster) kind of thing?
>
>  Who's to decide the ratings, though? The webmaster? One person's
>  R is another person's PG.

Well, the guidelines for movies is rather simple.  And while nothing
is perfect, something is better than nothing (imho).

>
>
>  > I believe that if we (being folks who run webservers) don't do
>  > something soon, the US congress may shove something distasteful down
>  > the world's throats.
>
>  Which will promptly be ignored by the world and a fair portion of
>  the US.

I would disagree that a "fair portion of the US" would ignore a law
that imposes heavy fines.  And while others may ignore US law, the US
has a way of welcoming folks to the US when they visit by giving them
a guided tour of US prison facilities (as several currently
incarcerated Panamanian legislators can tell you).  Please don't
underestimate the power or reach of US law.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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