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Originally Posted by grandmascrotum
Poll: What label do you think should be the standard and promoted as such?
1. ICRA label (existing system)
2. A simple <content="adult"> meta tag
3. A more complex tag with varying content levels but still one that is just inserted in the html
4. A meta label combined with V-chip system
5. No label
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My personal opinion is fist that no label is not an option, especially for US webmasters because in my most humble opinion if we don't do something ourselves, eventually our government will. Just like they did with steroids in baseball (wtf the US govt. is doing telling an adult what they can and can't do with their body in any fucking manner is way beyond my understanding but that's a different subject). So, in our own interest, something has to be done.
My preference is complex but relevant tags. The reason being that the more relevant the tag is, the more likely major search engines will actually pick it up and use it for SERP. If the major search engines DO pick it up, that will give non-US webmasters an incentive to use the tag as well. Which in the end, helps further the goal of making it possible for all adult material to be kept out of the hands of minors without their parental consent.
But, I'll take almost ANYTHING because the fact is, whatever is put in place will not get much use. The V-Chip in televisions are being used by less than 10% of the homes in the US...according to the last study I remember seeing. Tom, from the FSC, has stated that they are working on a white paper on the subject and I personally am all for tabling the discussion until the FSC publishs it's white paper. At which time, we can tell them how stupid their idea's are.