FC: Be careful before self-rating: You may find your site deleted

[I wonder how Politech should be rated. Certainly we've had discussions
even today (http://www.politechbot.com/p-02691.html) about violence that
used foul language. Is Politech a news site? How about someone at Geocities
who writes the occasional opinion article? How about www.madcowculture.com?
Or www.mrlizard.com? --Declan]

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From: dixonm_at_pobox.com
To: declan_at_well.com
Subject: Re: FC: Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo endorse self-rating system at event
today
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:00:19 -0400

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:42:06 -0400, you wrote:

>This self-rating idea was silly enough when it surfaced circa 1997,
>and most of us thought it died a natural death. But no, silly ideas in
>politics never do -- they devolve into trade associations instead.

I know someone who writes slash (fanfic involving explicit, usually
homosexual, sex). She conscientiously went through and rated all the pages on
her site which contained anything inappropriate for children. Her webhost
(Geocities, I think; I could be misremembering) promptly deleted those pages.
Unrated pages on other websites on the same provider with similar content
stayed up.

-- 
Meredith Dixon <dixonm_at_pobox.com>
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