What internet content label do you think should be the standard and promoted as such?

[RawAlex]

No, I think that the TV industry and movie industry have already blazed the path and set the standards. Hollywood and the other media also understand and have long since accepted (grudgingly, with issues) the current rating system. I would rather be part of that big whole, rather than being the oddballs on the corner.

Alex

[walrus]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

No, I think that the TV industry and movie industry have already blazed the path and set the standards.
Alex

Careful, remember the movie and the TV industry ARE NOT self rating. All movies and TV shows must be submitted to a "ratings board" where the rating is assigned to them. I'm sure no one wants to submit every page of HTML they create to a ratings board, and wait for that board to come back with the appropriate tag to be inserted into their code. Also news programming and sports on TV are not rated (because of the real time issue) which creates some more interesting scenerio's with the V-chip and rating system. Things like children can watch a boxing match where the violence is real but they can not watch a movie like "Raging Bull" where the violence is staged.

The even bigger issue that we havent even begun to address is compliance. There is no way to force compliance without an international agreement and you think we all have a hard time agreeing.

I personally can see the headlines now....US outlaws all porn production and sales....In an unrelated story, Canadian immigration levels at record high....6 months later. US send cruise missiles in to destroy Canadian data centers. Most porn found in US coming from Canadian sources.

[stuveltje]

Originally Posted by walrus

Careful, remember the movie and the TV industry ARE NOT self rating. All movies and TV shows must be submitted to a "ratings board" where the rating is assigned to them. I'm sure no one wants to submit every page of HTML they create to a ratings board, and wait for that board to come back with the appropriate tag to be inserted into their code. Also news programming and sports on TV are not rated (because of the real time issue) which creates some more interesting scenerio's with the V-chip and rating system. Things like children can watch a boxing match where the violence is real but they can not watch a movie like "Raging Bull" where the violence is staged.

The even bigger issue that we havent even begun to address is compliance. There is no way to force compliance without an international agreement and you think we all have a hard time agreeing.

I personally can see the headlines now....US outlaws all porn production and sales....In an unrelated story, Canadian immigration levels at record high....6 months later. US send cruise missiles in to destroy Canadian data centers. Most porn found in US coming from Canadian sources.

well thats very funny you say that about the rating, because thats how it works in holland, we dont have an Vchip in the telly, easy thinking we have porn on every channel at some time, what the netherlands did was getting an rating system for the movies for porn, violence, they put an age on every program and movie, only it are the parents who have to watch that, so if a movie is getting on telly we will see an mesage before what age is right to watch the movie, so all the responsability is at the parents, what i dont like is, that they say age 6 and i see sex scenes which are not for small people age of 6, holland use rating, all ages, 6 , 12 and 16 years old i believe,. damn a Vchip will never work here.