So, I have been thinking about this Cambria Struggles in Senate Porn Hearings

[RawAlex]

My feeling has always been that without a rating meta on page, browsers by nature should not open webpages. Regardless of the nature of the site, rate it from G to XXX and away you go. Use similar guidelines to those in the TV / cable industry, with the understanding that we have net ratings that are far beyond normal TV.

Most importantly, these ratings need to require nothing more than a meta tag put on a page. No registration, no forms to fill out, no bullshit. Quite simple, we rate out pages, and the browser manufactures key on that tag and work from there. Over a period of time, all pages would require to be rated, and in the end, (say end of 2006) all browsers must be compliant as distributed in the US.

If someone wants to manually write a work around, it would be no different from password trading or hacking. I am sure people do it, I am sure some people would get past the blocks, but the reality would be that our industry (and the web as a whole) would have made a good faith effort to allow parents to control their children's access to adult material online.

Sometimes the simpliest solutions are not the ones people will even grasp.

Alex

[Surfn]

I wonder how any one or any government can get the entire internet to agree on something. Take a look around at the real off line world and tell me the online world of more anonymity could work better on reaching an agreement? I hesitate to believe that it could ever happen.

Then again what do I know. Good luck in your efforts.