[LINK] ID checks for social media accounts?

[Tom Worthington]

On 8/4/21 9:46 am, Liddy Nevile wrote:

> PICS is the Platform for Content Selection ...

Thanks, I had forgotten PICS. Roger Clarke wrote an overview of it in 
1996: http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/PICS960716.html

It gets nine mentions in the Link archive, from 1996 to 2002.

The politics of PICS is discussed, at length, in Peter Chen's 2000 
thesis, starting page 134: 
https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/11343/38780/65881_00000240_01_AOCR.pdf

Apparently, I welcomed its use:

"Rather than pushing for a criminal law regime to deal with on-line 
content issues, the ABA recommends a self-regulatory framework (as 
proposed by the ACS) for service providers with a content labelling 
scheme based on PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection) 
standards." http://www.tomw.net.au/twadd13.htm


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