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Originally posted by TheSaint
ICRA is very easy to do, I have it on my sites. It has no effect on sales.
You put a configuration in Apache to add the header to every page; you don't change the content itself.
You'd have to be a moron to be against this.
First, people with young kids DO want their kids to be able to explore on their own. You cannot sit with a child 24X7. A reasonable parent will get their kids a content filtering setup and keep an eye on things but maybe not every second.
Second, besides the fact that I actually DO want to block my site from kids, its a great legal defense that you took positive steps to block your site from children.
Personally, I would not want to stand in front of a jury and have to explain that I couldn't be bothered to do something that would take me maybe 10 minutes, or that I didn't want to because I was afraid I would loose some sales.
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all good points.
you do lose a small amount of sales in my opinion, because surfers at work sometimes cannot get to your sites because their employers use content filtering to keep them off porn sites.
but, it's the RIGHT THING TO DO if you are serious about taking proactive steps to keep kids off your sites.
and there is another side benefit that protects the webmaster:
no court will ever be able to say you are deliberately trying to entice kids to your sites with a "misleading domain" if you label your sites.
it's good for the kids, and good for business overall.