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Hi,
i came across this a few year back but would like to share this information with this forum.
Did you know that if your site is not labeled by the Internation Content Rating Association then your site is automatically blocked if parental control is enabled on users PC?
Here is a quote from :
[URL=http://www.icra.org]http://www.icra.org
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The International Content Rating Assocation
Why bother to label a site?
There are a number of compelling reasons why a web author would label his/her site with ICRA. Let’s take four examples:
Commercial sites, with little or no objectionable material will want to label their site so as not to be blocked “by default.” When a parent sets up the filter for their child, they will be offered an option to allow or disallow access to “sites that have no rating.” Most sites want the maximum number of visits to justify advertising or other related commercial activity. It would make good marketing sense for all commercial sites to be rated (labelled), whether or not they have any content that could be described as harmful.
Operators of sites designed specifically for children will want to label their sites as some search engines build their database of “child-friendly sites” by looking for ICRA labels.
The majority of operators of “adults only” sites are generally just as keen not to offend young children as the next person. Furthermore, labelling their site sends a clear signal to governments that the World Wide Web is willing and able to self-regulate, rather than have the heavy hand of government legislation decide what is or is not acceptable.
All other things being equal, a site carrying an ICRA label is more likely to be perceived as trustworthy than one which is not labelled.