Comments on: Ratings for Websites?

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:57:14 +0000

There is, Michael! Click the link after "picture source" at the end of the post. A couple of years ago, every blog I knew had one of those badges displayed.

By: Michael the Dumb Tec

Michael the Dumb Tec — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:53:05 +0000

Aww, I was almost hoping their was a link to 'automagically rate' my blog. Out of curiosity alone. I could actually see sites doing it and displaying it just because we find the idea so ridiculous that it's funny.

By: DUKE

DUKE — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:14:37 +0000

Marisa & Ebn win the day. It's very simple & always has been. Monitor your own fucking kids! Start out by not letting them read this comment!

By: J. Gross

J. Gross — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:28:22 +0000

It's been awhile since I've seen an idea that was so "undoable". Why not make more government rules? For heavens sake the Internet is a "living" thing. Parents need to take more responsibility for the actions of their children. You can't just leave them alone with the Internet, that's like leaving them alone with a stranger.

IMO, government needs to rate itself by finding the graft and greed within.

By: Jim Gaudet

Jim Gaudet — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:20:22 +0000

Wow, Marisa and Ebn said it perfectly. Take care of your own kids. This is how it should be.

Let me take care of myself too. Stop telling me what I can and can not do with my own body. Who has that right?

By: Ebn-Ozn

Ebn-Ozn — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:53:30 +0000

If Andy Burnham is truly concerned about what his children see on the Internet, perhaps he should start being a parent and teach his children, rather than steering governments to imprint his apparent failure to do so on the rest of us.

And the nanny state creeps a little farther into the online world…

By: Chip

Chip — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:01:48 +0000

Worse than stupid. It's a framework for suppressing freedom of speech under the guise of "decency".

By: Marisa

Marisa — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:56:28 +0000

At least we're closing out 2008 with the worst idea of the year.

Please, keep everyone's government out of internet content ratings. I'll monitor my kids my way, you monitor yours your way.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:06:54 +0000

Well obviously the MPAA system is probably something Andy Burnham, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in England hasn't bothered considering.

But the whole plan is laughable really, kind of embarrassing. I'm not really sure how he plans to accomplish this without some Great-Firewall-Of-China-esque infrastructure. Unless it's only UK-based websites they'll be expecting to apply for a rating….by whom btw?

Stupid.