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Originally Posted by Redrob
A rating system is an invitation to community censorship in the USA. Any grand jury can say nothing beyond X is legal in our community. Not a good idea. We survive on some ambiguity in the community standards.
I even looked at the European system of rating from 1-100 that was developed by Waat Media several years ago and the First Amendment attorneys said it was a bad idea for the USA.
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Yes, but we had similar First Amendment debates over ratings for movies and music CDs, and then there's been the "Standards & Practices" departmentsof television stations for decades....
Either we do it ourselves or some Big Brother entity will do it for us.