Yeah, I don't see why (for example) Wikipedia articles could not be 'tagged' with ICRA-style PICS labels. These are machine-readable metadata that give information on whether the article contains certain types of content e.g. profanity, nudity, substance abuse, and the 'severity' of that content (e.g. ranging from passionate kissing to close-up explicit sexual acts for the nudity category).
Of course it would require some noticeable software changes, but I don't see why it couldn't be done on a semi-automatic basis using the category system. For example, any article put into the 'articles with a nude image' category (I believe this category already exists) could be tagged with the appropriate metadata for nudity. It wouldn't be censorship - all content would still be available to those users who wanted it, but where a user (or their parents in the case of kids) decides they do not want to view a particular type of content, this would give them that choice.
Cynical
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 3/26/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
I find it very curious that of all the things they can attack wikipedia for, the fact that wikipedia is not censored is the one they focus on. Very strange indeed.
All the more reason to tag Wikipedia articles as kidsafe/worksafe.
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