Quote Originally Posted by collegeboyslive
it also sounded like the goverment were just looking at all the negatives and soem threats in there " if you dont we will" rather than looking at ways to work with us. after all do we REALLY want to waste bandwith and time advertising to kids? I know I dont. after all they arnt going to sign up, the adults are.
A couple of them were just looking at the negatives however, imho, we need to look at all of the negatives in order to find solutions to them.

Im the first person to tell things how they are but, i have to say, i found the hearings to be not only 'adult friendly' for the most part but, also very informative, they certainly gave me a lot of insight in to how Congress is going to be approaching the issue of online pornography specifically i think, they are going to be looking at ways we can 'rate' the content that appears on our websites ultimately leading to (hopefully) better filtering technologies to block access to our sites by parents in order to stop their children from seeing pornography.

The problem we have now is that there isnt a viable global method in place to facilitate this filtering which is why i think we, as an indusry, need to start working on some kind of industry standard that involves rating our websites so that when any potential government mandated filtering technology comes in to effect, we'll have a much easier time of things.

It definately sounds like this is going to happen, its just a case of when and who implements it.

That being said, how can we, as adult webmasters, start rating our websites? Should we be looking at ways to define what type of sites have specific types of ratings?

Thinking about it, that could be a really community discussion, so, i think im going to start another thread about that in a few once i have figured out how to phrase it

Regards,

Lee