Web site ratings

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008, David A. Bandel wrote:
>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.

One probably can't move without violating one or more US Laws,
and enforcement is more based on politics and power than justice.

According to the article below, many major banks and mortgage
lenders knowingly violated a US law imposing a $1,000,000 fine
and 30 years in jail for lying in relation to lending.

	http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north619.html

Bill
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