On Wed, 16 Jul 1997 frissell@panix.com wrote:
What ever happened to "de minimus non curat lex." The social damage from a misrated website is too trivial to be believed. Punishing it is like executing you for farting.
In some cases that may not be a bad idea :). But getting back to the original point, if I'm going to be subject to jail for mislabeling my pages (and how do you tell, given that some systems use a numeric rating? count the nipples and add the size of any erections?) then that would seem to be a good reason to move my Web site out of America. Idependent rating systems are a good thing, and we've talked about them here many times in the past (e.g. 'repuation markets'). A mandatory requirement for web authors to rate their own pages is a hideous idea which will simply move more of the Web overseas, helping to destroy the US economy. WebMonger