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Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS)
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This is the PICS Rating File - GeneralAudiences.rat:

((PICS-version 1.0)
 (rating-system  "http://www.GeneralAudiences.com/")
 (rating-service "http://www.GeneralAudiences.com/")
 (name "GeneralAudiences")

 (description "GeneralAudiences.com supports PICS as a tool which enables
 parents to make the internet a safer place for their children to explore.

 GeneralAudiences has only the ratings of K, G, and A because it does not
 support the use of PICS as a tool of censorship by any individual,
 corporatation, or government agency.

 Sites rated (A) in this system correspond an RSACi rating of
 (Violence:1,Sex:1,Nudity:1,Language:1) or higher.

 It is generally understoood that the vast majority of useful and
 important content on the internet is presented with level 0 of
 violence, sex, nudity, and language.

 GeneralAudiences.com agrees that there are also many valuable sites that can't
 claim a level 0 in all categories, and suggests that these rare sites can be
 enabled for the younger viewer on an individual and possibly supervised basis.

 Keep in mind that web sites are self-rated by the author of the pages, and parents
 rely on the integrity of the author to give his or her pages the appropriate rating.")

 (category 
  (transmit-as "a")
  (name "Audience")

  (label
   (name "Best For Kids")
   (description "(K) Pages which were created especially for Kids even when unsupervised.")
   (value 0) 
  )

  (label
   (name "General Audiences")
   (description "(G) Pages which are safe for kids but not necessarily created for kids.
   The vast majority of pages on the internet fall under this category.")
   (value 1) 
  )

  (label
   (name "Adult Audiences")
   (description "(A) Pages containing some (any) level of violence, sex, nudity, or language.
   Content may not be suitable for children. Enable ADULT rated pages on an individual and
   supervised basis.")
   (value 2) 
  )
 )
)
         




This is how RSACi (now ICRA) defined the ratings of Violence, Sex, Nudity, and Language:

VIOLENCE
   Level 0: No aggressive violence; no natural or accidental violence
   Level 1: Fighting, creatures injured or killed; damage to realistic objects
   Level 2: Humans or non-threatening creatures injured or killed
   Level 3: Killing with blood and gore, humans injured or killed
   Level 4: Wanton and gratuitous violence

SEX
   Level 0: No sexual activity portrayed. Romance
   Level 1: Passionate kissing
   Level 2: Clothed sexual touching
   Level 3: Non-explicit sexual touching
   Level 4: Explicit sexual activity

NUDITY
   Level 0: No nudity
   Level 1: Revealing attire
   Level 2: Partial nudity
   Level 3: Frontal nudity
   Level 4: Provocative frontal nudity

LANGUAGE
   Level 0: Inoffensive slang, no profanity
   Level 1: Mild expletives or mild terms for body functions
   Level 2: Moderate expletives; non-sexual anatomical references
   Level 3: Strong, vulgar language; obscene gestures. Use of epithets
   Level 4: Extreme hate speech or crude language. Explicit sexual references



This is how it would work:

   Cut and paste the text of the PICS Rating File (shown above)
   into a text file called GeneralAudiences.rat and save it in your
   \Windows\System directory.


In Internet Explorer:

   Select Tools - Internet Options - Content - Settings
   Enter your password then select General - Rating Systems - Add
   Browse to your \Windows\System directory and Open GeneralAudiences.rat
   Click OK until you are back at Content Advisor and select Ratings
   Select GeneralAudiences - Audience and adjust your settings below
   Select OK until you have exited the Tools menu


Web Page Authors:
   Put a META TAG similar to the following in the header of your web pages:

   <Meta http-equiv="PICS-Label"
   Content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.GeneralAudiences.com/index.html" l gen true
       comment "GeneralAudiences.com supports PICS for parental guidance only!"
       for "http://www.yourdomain.com" on "2002.04.18T14:30-0800" r (a 1))'>

   You need to change a few things in the line above to make it applicable to your page:

   1. Obviously, you will change "http://www.yourdomain.com" to the URL of your web page.

   2. You can change the "2002.04.18T14:30-0800" to match the date and time of your edit.

       2002.04.18T14:30 is April 18, 2002 at 2:30PM
       The -800 is the time zone for PST (8 hours behind GMT).  Use -500 For EST, etc...

   3. Finally, change the rating, if needed, to describe your content:

       r (a 0) = specifically for kids.
       r (a 1) = safe for kids, even when unsupervised.
       r (a 2) = not for unsupervised kids.

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