“In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Andy Burnham [U.K. Culture Secretary, whatever that is!] says he believes that new standards of decency need to be applied to the web. He is planning to negotiate with Barack Obama’s incoming American administration to draw up new international rules for English language websites.
“The Cabinet minister describes the internet as ‘quite a dangerous place’ and says he wants internet-service providers (ISPs) to offer parents ‘child-safe’ web services.
“Giving film-style ratings to individual websites is one of the options being considered, he confirms.”–telegraph.co.uk
It is really the responsibility of parents to supervise their children. Parents should not try to shift that responsibility onto others, by citing some absurd theory that children should be free to wander anywhere at will and find only things that are suitable for children.
