ABA and RSAC involved in Global Ratings Plan

[Greg Taylor]

http://192.215.107.71/wire/news/june/0630ratings.html

Internet Groups Plan Global Rating System (06/30/97; 4:00 p.m. EDT)
By Douglas Hayward, TechWire

BONN, Germany -- Child-protection groups and a national broadcasting
regulator are meeting here next week to start the porcess of creating
internationally agreed content-rating systems for the Internet.

The move is designed to promote self-regulation by Netizens and to
stave off government censorship.

The Recreational Software Advisory Council, a nonprofit developer of
international content rating systems based in Lexington, Mass., is
meeting the Australian Broadcasting Authority and three Internet
industry groups to create a group to coordinate development of
cross-cultural voluntary content rating schemes for the Internet.

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