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YOUR SITE IS RATED PG
The government is looking into having Web sites rated in the same way that the British Board of Film Classification certifies films, which are labelled "U", "PG", "R18" etc to safeguard children. Minister For Culture Andy Burnham told The Daily Telegraph that the government was planning to negotiate age ratings for English language sites with the administration of President Barack Obama. "The more we seek international solutions to this stuff - with the U.K. and the U.S. working together - the more that an international norm will set an industry norm", Burnham said. One possibility, he added, would be to force ISPs to offer services where the only Web sites accessible are those deemed suitable for children. Burnham claimed this would not be censorship: "This is not a campaign against free speech, far from it; it is simply that there is a wider public interest at stake when it involves harm to other people. We have got to get better at defining where the public interest lies and being clear about it".
The government is looking into having Web sites rated in the same way that the British Board of Film Classification certifies films, which are labelled "U", "PG", "R18" etc to safeguard children. Minister For Culture Andy Burnham told The Daily Telegraph that the government was planning to negotiate age ratings for English language sites with the administration of President Barack Obama. "The more we seek international solutions to this stuff - with the U.K. and the U.S. working together - the more that an international norm will set an industry norm", Burnham said. One possibility, he added, would be to force ISPs to offer services where the only Web sites accessible are those deemed suitable for children. Burnham claimed this would not be censorship: "This is not a campaign against free speech, far from it; it is simply that there is a wider public interest at stake when it involves harm to other people. We have got to get better at defining where the public interest lies and being clear about it".