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While the details have yet to be worked out, White House staff members hope to talk Website operators into a kind of universal rating system. Combining it with software browsers used to access much of the Net, parents could in theory set their own comfort level and filter out the naughty bits. "If we are to make the Internet a powerful resource for learning, we must give parents and teachers the tools they need to make the Internet safe for children," Clinton said last week. "With the right technology and rating systems, we can help ensure that our children...
Good luck. Software filters and online ratings systems have been around since before the CDA was born, and they've always been beset with problems. Recently, for instance, when Microsoft began backing a ratings standard known as RSACI and started including the filter as part of its browser, Internet Explorer, the company quickly found that the "solution" could keep large numbers of viewers away from its news site, MSNBC. Microsoft quietly removed the rating. The problem should have been foreseen. News, after all, frequently covers violent, adult-oriented subjects, which puts many news stories into the same verboten range...
Much of Hong Kong fears China's notorious corruption will ooze across the border. "Of course it will filter into Hong Kong," warns a Western diplomat on the mainland who handles scores of such complaints. "It's inevitable because it's cultural, it's the way business is done here." To that, tough Lily Yam, the new chief of the Anticorruption Commission, responds, "Do I have the nerve to pursue an investigation if it involves someone very important? The answer is an unequivocal yes." Anthony Neoh, 50, chairman of the Security and Futures Commission, must find a way to regulate...
Pilbeam adds that he hoped that the stricter attention to the percentage of summas would also filter down to the recommendations for magna and cum laude degrees...
...important, arcane. (You probably don't care that HTML 3.2 is a widely respected standard, even though that fact greatly eases your travel on the Web.) But some are more high profile. pics, the Platform for Internet Content Selection, is a proposed standard that would let parents filter out offending Websites. It's a kind of V chip, except with no government involvement; you subscribe to the rating service of your choice...