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Re: My Official Viewpoint
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:14:15 GMT
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Jude Beaudin wrote:
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> Larry,
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> Thanks. I now realize my post would have been more appropriate to the other
> branch of this thread where the debate seems to be more on the JarJar hatred
> than the whole responsability issue.
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> As far as the censorship debate goes, I personally feel it is up to the parents
> to control their children's access to the internet. If a parent properly
> teaches their child then they have to choose to trust the child, if not, they
> are responsable for controlling what the child is viewing (just like TV). Now
> in the ideal world a simple disclaimer would resolve the problem but the world
> is not ideal, it is real, and I agree with you about the "do not touch warning"
> being a source of temptation. (This is why it is the parents' responsability to
> teach the children.)
What I would love to see for the web is a simple set of html "ratings"
tags. These would be voluntarily applied by authors, and would be used
by browsers to block access or give warning before proceding as the
machine owner desires (and I do mean machine owner, not machine user,
your workplace has the right to tell you what you are allowed to look at
on company time with company resources, a parent has the right [and
responsibility] to control what their children are allowed to look at).
On top of this, it would be nice for ISPs to include in their TOS that
the author should take reasonable care in properly tagging their work.
If this were done, the person who was concerned about a user of their
machine seeking into areas which are not tagged can subscribe to a list
of ISPs which don't require their users to tag pages and block ANY
access to sites on that ISP.
An interesting enhancement to this would be a ratings.tags file or
something, which the browser can find, which then applies to all content
in that directory or lower. Thus, if I wanted to have a directory with
pictures of extreme violence, I can indicate that, and then a protective
browser would not even let you access the pictures by sneaking around
the wall of the page which presents them and peeking at the pictures
directly.
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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