Christiaan Briggs said:
So, if this person is correct, I owe you an apology. Browser-based content filtering may well be the way to go.
PICS? This was discussed on en-wikipedia in December.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphic_and_potentially_disturbing_im... As developer David Monniaux said on December 3:
"A tagging scheme such as PICS, while standard, does not specify a taxonomy of ratings: that is, it specifies how the server tells the client that such or such content may be categorized as X, but does not specify a list of categories or guidelines according to which content should be classified. Presumably, to be of any interest to real end-users, the system would have to implement categories understood by major end-user software. Who determines these categories? Are there standards for them? Do they reflect the point of view of certain groups? Etc." So PICS itself is just a mechanism. You have to use PICS alongside some end-user taxonomy (content classification system) that is recognisable by some popular net nanny software, and ask the user to download and program the net nanny software. All sounds a bit complex for people who, I'm repeatedly told, can't even be bothered to learn how to turn image downloads on and off.