Web Site Ratings
The U.K. Minister of Culture has suggested a rating system for web sites in an effort to protect children.
Andy Burnham told The Daily Telegraph newspaper, published on Saturday, that the government was planning to negotiate with the administration of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to draw up new international rules for English language Web sites.
“The more we seek international solutions to this stuff — the UK and the U.S. working together — the more that an international norm will set an industry norm,” the newspaper reports the Culture Secretary as saying in an interview.
Giving Web sites film-style ratings would be one possibility.
“This is an area that is really now coming into full focus,” Burnham told the paper.
As we start down this road, be aware that existing router technology will be able to block “R” rated sites at the local ISP level. Maybe the “community standards” in some town forces the local cable company to block all R rated sites for the whole town.
This is not a good idea to try to imitate the Great Firewall of China.
Wedge politics. Get them where it is most sensitive. Like putting a ring on a bull’s nose. For this reason they have jealously guarded their ideologies on abortion, homosexuality and religion. Farming culture.
As long as we have a majority of ignorant and productive people, this will not end. The productivity department is weakening as well as ignorance. Maybe they are desperately trying to push shit up creek hey?
Wedge politics. Get them where it is most sensitive. Like putting a ring on a bull’s nose. For this reason they have jealously guarded their ideologies on abortion, homosexuality and religion. Farming culture.
As long as we have a majority of ignorant and productive people, this will not end. The productivity department is weakening as well as ignorance. Maybe they are desperately trying to push shit up creek hey?
I’m hoping this is just the phenomenon of the outlier – where a minor Cabinet member proposes something potentially outrageous in order to gauge public opinion without directly implicating the PM. I also hope that the public will react strongly against it.
I’m hoping this is just the phenomenon of the outlier – where a minor Cabinet member proposes something potentially outrageous in order to gauge public opinion without directly implicating the PM. I also hope that the public will react strongly against it.