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

[cd34]

You're confusing PICS with ICRA.

PICS is merely a framework that is implemented with a policy definition language. ICRA is the one with the gazillion tags that uses the PICS framework.

Go to this page, create a label, they need an email address, so, make sure you have one that doesn't bounce. With that email, they send you an RDF file that includes your definitions.

http://www.icra.org/label/generator/

Then, in each page of HTML put:

<link rel="meta" href="http://domain.com/labels.rdf" type="application/rdf+xml" title="ICRA labels" />
<meta name="rating" content="restricted">

If you have access to setting mod_headers, the following will tag ANY file requested from your site -- graphics, videos, etc even if they are hotlinked.

http://www.icra.org/systemspecification/

If you don't want to go through the pain of defining your own ICRA tags, I have attached labels.txt. Edit the one location that says domain.com and rename it labels.rdf and put it at the root of your website.

With those two changes, I believe that you can honestly say that you have made a best effort attempt to clearly label your sites as adult content.

It works now, its probably supported by the search engines, it is supported by the safesearch tools today. Pretty much a done issue.

Now we just have to get the word out.

[Halfdeck]

It works now, its probably supported by the search engines, it is supported by the safesearch tools today. Pretty much a done issue.

I agree completely, though I'd expect the following response, and this has been discussed elsewhere:

1. We don't want to give control to a third party. ANSWER: Modify the rdf files and you can rid of any dependence on ICRA.org.
2. rdf file / label is too big. ANSWER: The meta tag is no longer than a keyword tag and the rdf file is no bigger than a 50x50 thumbnail image.
3. We don't want to register 10000 times to label our sites. ANSWER: One time registration, one RDF file.
4. We want a simple tag. ANSWER: Push for a simpler tag; in the meantime, use what already works.
5. Using what "already works" is an endorsement of a faulty labeling system and giving over control to a third-party organization

In other words, what Paul Cambria said recently before a US Senate committee is accurate.

Connor Young: What he should have explained to Senator Stevens is that most legitimate adult websites do in fact label their content, usually with the ICRA labeling system, and that if a parent makes use of existing browser controls in Internet Explorer, all of these labeled websites will be automatically blocked. Instead, and to my utter disbelief, Mr. Cambria told Senator Stevens that adult businesses do not label their websites, but that, gee whiz, perhaps they ought to start!

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:...s&ct=clnk&cd=1

[Bill]

Maybe we should write some letters and send some email to Paul Cambria?

I've always thought of Cambria as a video lawyer, but if he's gonna speak for the onliners maybe we onliners should send him something to speak about?

[wishmaster]

The way i see the government want us to play mom and to all the kids that can get on the net ... we all as webmaster should use the ratings" tags to help stop kids from looking at the porn biz but what it all come down to when does mom and dad step in and say what can I do to make sure my kids are not looking at this ...


I'm sure many of us feel the same as i do but want can we do but use the ratings" tags to help ..
hell i'm a dad and i dont let my kids see any of this stuff ..

[SirMoby]

Originally Posted by wishmaster

The way i see the government want us to play mom and to all the kids that can get on the net ... we all as webmaster should use the ratings" tags to help stop kids from looking at the porn biz but what it all come down to when does mom and dad step in and say what can I do to make sure my kids are not looking at this ...


I'm sure many of us feel the same as i do but want can we do but use the ratings" tags to help ..
hell i'm a dad and i dont let my kids see any of this stuff ..

You're right. All that we can do is label the sites and it is up to parents to do something using those labels. As a parent I know that if there aren't labels then there is no way to allow my daughter to use the Internet and still keep the nasties away.

That being said, as a parent I want a lot more labeled then just sexually explicit material. Guns, gambling, violence, religion, hate and most of Fox News is not the type of stuff for children.