PICS is not censorship

Asgaard asgaard at Cor.sos.sll.se
Tue Dec 10 11:29:38 PST 1996


>>What if the PICS classifications were worded so as to describe the factual
>>content of a page rather than the writers opinion of its suitability? This,
>>if correctly implemented, could remove the problem of interpretation.
> 
> Doubful. I contend that any such approach is bound to fail.

I agree with the last statement. Who decides if Great Tits is about
sex or ornithology? (This example has reportedly confused many
admirers of prolific milk-producing tissue searching on AltaVista
ending up at Bird Sites.)

Asgaard






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