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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Wouldn't you agree that good parenting involves internet filters? This is where it becomes a two way street. Webmasters and ratings work together with parents and filter software.
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before internet filters can work, labeling of web pages has to be done first.
even if there were no software that could block pages that used a labeling system, the labels would need to be there first.
its like the classic chicken-and-egg story.. but not.. parents won't use a system that has nothing to filter against... whereas the efforts to label are so minor, that even if no one was using that label to filter, the tiny little effort to put the labelling in does carry forward.
the more that do this, the more it catches the attention of technology enablers who can then provide for effective solutions.
labeling with
http://www.rtalabel.org is as simple as copy/paste of the RTA tag into every web page, or using php or rewrite_mod to handle it.
it goes along way in doing your part for advocacy work by ASACP and myself when we can statistically show and prove the number of adult websites who do self-label.
Without each webmaster's decision to make in labeling, it gives all the more reason why things like .XXX TLD and mandatory labeling laws keep popping up.
It makes my efforts to say to various entities that children should be protected from seeing harmful material (and this public scrutiny is most clearly demontrated with the Imus issue) as well as adults who don't want to see adult content, that they have the means to block such viewing.. WHILE AT THE SAME TIME, giving adults who want to see adult content, the ability to do so....a lot harder.
Its hard for me to rebutte someone when they look at adult websites and see sites not labelling, when they believe that only through legislation is the way to solve problems.. but we all know that U.S. laws only work for U.S.
Fight the soapbox!