Web site ratings

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:31 AM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> 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).

The MPAA rating system has been proven to be biased & flawed on many
levels.  That seems like a rather poor starting point, and certainly
not one to emulate elsewhere.


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