[6904] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Rating System for WWW Pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (WAGONERN@JUNCOL.JUNIATA.EDU)
Fri Dec 2 09:22:48 1994
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 14:38:58 +0100
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I second Brian Farrar's suggestion to put complete control in the hands
of the client. If a *local* (ie 'client') filtering system is workable
enough, that should defuse the pressure (anticipated and existing) to
censor the Web.
I teach Net usage workshops to public school teachers, and the question
of classrom control over content comes up often. It is a valid question,
IMHO, but I think the best solution is to put good tools in the hands
of the people who need or desire that kind of control, rather than
trying to create a webwide rating system which will only be circumvented
anyway.
Would it be possible from a programming pov to run a filter along with
existing browsers which would only permit access to a limited (pre-approved)
set of adresses? IOW, that way a teacher could permit access to say,
SpaceLink or the Smithsonian (or whatever) while denying access to other
sites? Any ideas, anyone?
I think it is vital that the Web community solve this problem before
others solve it for us ......
Nathan Wagoner
