Publicity on PICS

[Joseph M. Reagle Jr.]

At 05:25 PM 5/9/96 EDT, you wrote:
>        The following may give an example of how companies and governments want
>PICS to be used, instead of how it should be used (market-based ratings not
>for censorship).

        It is _very_ confusing to follow though.
>>CompuServe, Microsoft, Prodigy and Netscape Communications will soon give
>>their customers software enabling them to block access to material they
>>judge objectionable on the Internet's Worldwide Web.

        Consider that Compuserve had a deal with SurfWatch, which was
incorporated in it "Internet" in a box, with a lot of Spry goodies. Now
Surfwatch has been purchased by Spyglass (a competitor or Spry). Also,
Compuserve offers RSACi services through CyberPatrols RSACi compliance (got
some weird derivitive and cross-liscencing works going on here!) and urges
its users and 3rd party people to use RSACi...
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