Is the idea to classify sites as child safe or child oriented?
The goal is to get all sites to participate. The code allows parents to make specific decisions on what kind a material that they want their child to download. The computer will interpret the code of SS~~000 1 as “General Information (the first two zeros) with No Adult Themes ( the third “0”) with the mildest degree of 1″. This is 100% child safe for young children. If the site would contain a occasional mild expletive such as “crap” it would be rated as SS~~001 1 which the computer would translate as “General Information with No Adult Themes includes Profanity with a degree of 1. We stress that these codes are designed to be interpreted by the computer as they are encoded. By using the computer to do the translating, we can build a system that is both very detailed, but is simple to understand by the end users. The SafeSurf Rating system is very extensive because we wanted to make sure that Internet surfers have the freedom of choice. In regards to your rating standard categories, mak
