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> Some companies and their lobbies want to sell their products for filtering or whatever It really shouldn't be needed: web pages are all about tags with data
by throw0101d 3y ago
> Some companies and their lobbies want to sell their products for filtering or whatever
It really shouldn't be needed: web pages are all about tags with data and metadata. It shouldn't be hard to add metadata about content type.
I never quite understood why labeling initiatives never gained traction:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_Selection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_...
* https://www.w3.org/PICS/ https://www.w3.org/PICS/
* https://www.w3.org/2007/powder/ https://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
Throw some <meta> tags in and browsers can parse: then have a password-protected "filter controls" area in settings (and perhaps a GPO for corporate environments).
- johannes1234321 3y agoIn theory that is right, but if non-technical lawmakers are being told by vendors how complex and expensive products ease that and allow monitoring it's convincing for many.