Reports have revealed that Tibboh, a new Internet Service Provider, or ISP, has joined hands with the British Board of Film Classification with the aim to classify about 3 billion websites by placing on them age restrictions akin to those found in movies. The aim of the complete exercise is to protect youngsters and kids from being exposed to inappropriate content on the internet.
The idea to provide movie-style ratings to websites was first put forward by Professor Tanya Byron in a study report commissioned by the Government on the ways to ensure that the internet and its content is safer for young children.
It is an interesting observation that the ISP has rated popular social networking portals like Facebook and MySpace as 12, which means that children younger than the age of 12 will not be allowed to gain access to them.
As per the ISP, every user would be provided with an individual log-in and password, and the system would keep a log of the age of every user and accordingly enforce age restrictions.
Sites which are related to gambling or allow illegal downloading of content have been rated 18.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
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