PICS & CyberAngels

[Declan B. McCullagh]

Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 3-May-96 PICS & CyberAngels by "E.
ALLEN SMITH"@ocelot. 
>         In view of the discussion of the possibility of PICS being required
> by law, plus that about the CyberAngels, I thought people might find it
> interesting that the CyberAngels home page has on it as one of their
> "responsibilities" making sure that all pages with sexual content - that
> pornography fetish again - have PICS or other (such as Safesurf...) ratings
> that would permit censorship of them.

Indeed. Under SafeSurf, I've rated the fight-censorship mailing list
archive site as suitable for all ages, which I believe it is, though the
CyberAngels think otherwise. I wonder what will happen now? SafeSurf is
supposedly sending me "an end-user license agreement" to sign...

-Declan