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

[RawAlex]

So why is ICRA involved in a meeting if they are just a small website tool that makes tags? Who is paying the freight?

Alex

[Bill]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

Who is paying the freight?

This is _THE_ critical question that we need to answer.

Who is the money behind Cambria?

Who is paying for this press? Who are these people? And why do they appear to be selling out the online sector?

What do they want, and what are they trying to protect by offering up the onliners as the scapegoat sacrifice for the neo-cons?

I guess I've only really started to ask these critical questions myself.

Who is the Adult Freedom Foundation? What is their history? Who is Cambria working for? How are they operating?

[MeatPounder]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

So why is ICRA involved in a meeting if they are just a small website tool that makes tags? Who is paying the freight?

Alex

They are much more then a simple web site tool with their memberships going for companies like AOL, Verizon, ATT, etc going for 30k a pop.

Plus they are shooting to be "the" labelling system from what it says on their website.

What's Next For ICRA?
Due to the increasingly international nature of digital content and the plethora of media ratings schemes that exist, there is a growing requirement for a common labelling framework for digital content, which ICRA can provide. ICRA is uniquely positioned to be the common labelling framework that underlies a variety of age-based rating systems. ICRA will allow a content provider to label digital content once, and for that label to be mapped into whatever rating system is most appropriate for each distribution channel.

ICRA helps to address the growing phenomena of 'space-shifting', defined by industry leaders as: "moving content between devices". For instance:

Broadcast TV clips can be played on cell phones
Movies can be delivered via the internet and viewed on the PC
Streaming media from an internet site can be displayed on a TV set
The need for a universal content labelling scheme that can be mapped to existing national or device-based rating systems becomes of great importance.

That is why they are having the round table, and why the AFF wants to be there.

As I said in the other thread I am now using both the ICRA system and a PICS label with Safesurf marking my sites adult
<link rel="meta" href="http://www.meatybabes.com/labels.rdf" type="application/rdf+xml" title="ICRA labels" />
<meta http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" L gen true for "http://www.meatybabes.com" r (SS~~000 9 SS~~001 7 SS~~002 6 SS~~003 6 SS~~004 6 SS~~005 1 SS~~009 6))'>

It takes me less then a minute at both those organizations to obtain my label for a site, and less then 5 seconds to paste those two tags in my headers.
For my existing pages I create them with this tag <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="ALL=INDEX,FOLLOW"> on everyone of them so a search and replace I search for that and replace it with the 3 tags...the robots and the two labels.