The concept of movie/game style "ratings" for websites is just absurd. In addition to this problem:

The biggest problem is that in order for the ratings to work, parents need to get involved. Does anyone actually think that the "you must be 18 years of age or older" warnings that open on pornographic Websites stop eager teens from getting inside? No -- so why would any rating system work on other Websites without supervision?

There's a far more basic one: how do you manage to get websites to include ratings? It's not like games or movies, where there's a (relatively) limited number of producers. Websites are easy to put up, and new ones appear all the time. How would this even work? The people who think this is a workable idea have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the web is.

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