Comments on: Should websites get movie style age ratings? http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2008/should-websites-get-movie-style-age-ratings/ Management and Creative Thinking Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:19:08 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Peter Hickman http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2008/should-websites-get-movie-style-age-ratings/comment-page-1/#comment-478801 Peter Hickman Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:53:25 +0000 http://www.scottberkun.com/?p=1229#comment-478801 Scott: I am a parent and I am always in the room when my boy is on the internet to make sure that he doesn't end up somewhere unsavory when he types something into Google or to help him find what he is looking for. Same for my nephews. Just in the same room on the sofa and keeping an eye on his screen. The 'rate web pages / sites' like movies is a bogus argument. Once you have rated the movie Bambi as suitable for everyone the movies does not change. Web sites change and in theory would need to be rerated each and every time that they are updated. Which is possibly even more insane than thinking you could put a rating on every site on the internet. Besides some people consider nudity to be pornographic, I do not. Some people consider information about sexually transmitted diseases to be unsuitable for children and that children should not know about contraception or abortion. I will not have anyone telling my child what they can and cannot know. Scott: I am a parent and I am always in the room when my boy is on the internet to make sure that he doesn’t end up somewhere unsavory when he types something into Google or to help him find what he is looking for. Same for my nephews. Just in the same room on the sofa and keeping an eye on his screen.

The ‘rate web pages / sites’ like movies is a bogus argument. Once you have rated the movie Bambi as suitable for everyone the movies does not change. Web sites change and in theory would need to be rerated each and every time that they are updated. Which is possibly even more insane than thinking you could put a rating on every site on the internet.

Besides some people consider nudity to be pornographic, I do not. Some people consider information about sexually transmitted diseases to be unsuitable for children and that children should not know about contraception or abortion.

I will not have anyone telling my child what they can and cannot know.

]]> By: Scott http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2008/should-websites-get-movie-style-age-ratings/comment-page-1/#comment-478379 Scott Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:52:45 +0000 http://www.scottberkun.com/?p=1229#comment-478379 Neil: on consensus you're right, and that's exactly why PICS failed. Many people interested in using parental controls want their to be a standard they can use without having to do much work, but they don't want it be someone else's standard :) The <a href="http://www.icra.org/label/generator/" rel="nofollow">ICRA rating system</a> at least tries to just document what is in the website, not whether it's good or bad. But any system that has a scale suggests goodness and badness by how the scale is set up (e.g. R is worse than PG). Neil: on consensus you’re right, and that’s exactly why PICS failed. Many people interested in using parental controls want their to be a standard they can use without having to do much work, but they don’t want it be someone else’s standard :)

The ICRA rating system at least tries to just document what is in the website, not whether it’s good or bad. But any system that has a scale suggests goodness and badness by how the scale is set up (e.g. R is worse than PG).

]]> By: Neil C. Obremski http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2008/should-websites-get-movie-style-age-ratings/comment-page-1/#comment-478373 Neil C. Obremski Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:43:40 +0000 http://www.scottberkun.com/?p=1229#comment-478373 I don't mind the idea of ratings, but I also don't think they'll solve much compared to the weird problems created. And making them a requirement, especially at the government level, seems a ridiculous panacea. I've been chastised for saying "fart" around children by some parents, so I can't imagine there would ever be a consensus on the limits of kid-friendly. I don’t mind the idea of ratings, but I also don’t think they’ll solve much compared to the weird problems created. And making them a requirement, especially at the government level, seems a ridiculous panacea.

I’ve been chastised for saying “fart” around children by some parents, so I can’t imagine there would ever be a consensus on the limits of kid-friendly.

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