Tim, if you think that no web site are unambiguously inappropriate for children, then you are in a state of denial.
Please clarrify this for us: What sites would you classify as unsuitable for children? What would you define as being a child? What justification do you give for supposing certain material to be unsuitable for viewing by a certain class of people?
are a mistake, and should be resisted. However, I do favor a far less ambitious and less informative system (less is more, as far as I am concerned), which involves a simple, single voluntary tag, selected by the web page publisher, at their discretion, of the nature of
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Would your vision of this be a mandatory system, or totally voluntary? Would clearly rating a site incorrectly be punishable in any way? Datacomms Technologies data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: FC76DA85 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"