The hardest part about getting the rating concept to work, as promised, is getting the sites rated. Hopefully the search engines, as President Clinton requested, will help too. I suggest that Web hosting companies commit their help as well Many rating companies are already using the PICS standard to come up with new products and services to address the needs of special interest groups. They have taken their extensive experience and applied it now to the Internet. RSACi uses a rating system similar to the one used to rate computer game violence to rate Internet sites for nudity, sexual content, violence and vulgarities.
Parents can select the types of content and levels of ratings appropriate for their children.
As with movie ratings or food labels . . . Using content ratings allows you, not the software blockers or government censors, to decide what and how much your children should see. There is no charge for getting rated, and any website operator can submit a questionnaire at RSAC's website to obtain a rating label. The questionnaire asks a series of highly specific questions about the level, nature and intensity of the offensive language and graphic content used on the site. The RSAC server processes the questionnaire and produces HTML advisory tags, which the website operator codes into the site.