New Content Rating System Available

Newsbytes is reporting ( http://www.newsbytes.com/ news/00/159363.html ) that there's a new rating system available. The Internet Content Rating System is available at http://www.icra.org/ . The site includes information on implementing the rating system in Internet Explorer (it's not supported by Netscape Navigator, apparently. No word on any other browser). It also has instructions for rating your own Web site, including the standard "content" questions but also including a "context" question -- eg., is the violence on a web site educational and therefore suitable for young children? (I like the idea of self-regulating when it comes to rating content, but wow, this seems subjective.) Finally, the site has a brief list of things kids can do to stay safe online.

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