[8511] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
RE: Rating Systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren New)
Tue Jun 27 16:43:32 1995
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 16:30:11 +0100
From: Darren New <dnew@sgf.fv.com>
To: "Christopher B. Rechtsteiner" <chris@cgs-ltd.com>
Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
In-Reply-To: <m0sQgAx-000BfrC@eagle.ais.net>
> As a new follower to this thread, might I throw out that we, perish this
> thought, use our own judgement on what pages are acceptable? The ratings of
> pages (for adult content, etc.) is basically a safety catch for everyone who
> is too irresponsible to determine what is appropriate material.
Well, unfortunately (in the US), children are deemed to be just that
irresponsible. Not that I agree, and not that there isn't a ton of
distasteful stuff I wouldn't want my children seeing but nobody every
thinks of censoring, but that's the realities of live in the USA.
> Heaven forbit we should all need someone to watch out for us.
Isn't that why we *hire* politicians? :-/
This is drifing off-topic, so followups via private email, eh? --Darren
