I spoke to Netscape earlier today. The company previously had announced it would support PICS in a future version of Navigator. Now it's pledging to support PICS in the *next* version. -Declan On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
At 01:07 AM 7/16/97 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
For instance, Netscape Communications is expected to announce it will back a software standard that allows people, using a Web browser, either to block or select certain Web sites based on their electronic labels, said industry and government sources, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Should such a system ever see widespread use, which I doubt, I only be a matter of days before somebody puts up pages featuring gratuitous violence, hard-core pornography, "how to kill your parents using common household chemicals", and pages of similar nature. At which point we will quickly discover just how "voluntary" this "voluntary standard" is.
Sure the CDA was struck down by the Supreme Court. Would a law prohibiting "mislabeling" of websites be struck down as well? I doubt it.
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