Rating and Content Selection On the Internet
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 03:37:51 GMT
From: "Jagdish Parikh" [jagdishp@ziplink.net]
Reply-To: union-d@wolfnet.com

Dear Friends,
Some of you might have noticed development shaping content selection on the Web. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) a trade organization, which has more than 300 members has come up with what is known as PICS Rules. Most of these developments will enable server manager (read regulator, censoring authorities monitoring proxy servers) to block and impose criterias on what type of information can flow through their pipelines.

These rules are much more than any censorware/blocking software has offered so far.

If they are applied worldwide we may see less visibility / censorship of un-popular views on the Internet.

Those who want to more about this please read following submission made by Global Interent Liberty Campaign - (GILC) to W3C.

May be we should consider potential impact of these developments on Global Labour Communications.

Any thought / comments on this?

In Solidarity, Jagdish Parikh

GILC & Platform for Internet Content Selection - PICS Rules is available at:
http://www.gilc.org/speech/ratings/gilc-pics-submission.html

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