Many web page authors have been slow to use PICS ratings systems such as Weburbia's Safe For Kids scheme. One of the reasons for this is that they see it as censorship which is an anathema on the internet. Safe For Kids is a system designed to help parents, teachers, librarians and others control access to web site content from private or public access points. This is to prevent children from accessing adult material on the web when parents are against it. Some people regard this as a form as censorship, but it is very different from the kind of government censorship which many people are against.
Censorship is the banning of material to stop it being available to the public.
We're on line now, with several dozen pentium's in the library. Most of our little darlings are using them to log on to porn sites, getting around the firewall with ease. Continual supervision is neither practical nor desirable. This is why some sort of web site rating and filtering system is essential while wider censorship which restricts free speech is not. Web filtering systems are analogous to the various measures used to prevent children from buying or viewing adult material in books, magazines and films.