What rating for goatse?

Posted April 21, 2006 12:11 PM

Bush administration proposes mandatory Web rating, with criminal penalties: "Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years, the Bush administration proposed Thursday..."

Will we have to embed the ratings in the title tags of our deep-links?

"a mandatory rating system backed by criminal penalties is 'antithetical to the First Amendment,' said Marv Johnson, legislative counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union."

"During his speech, Gonzales also warned that Internet service providers must begin to retain records of their customers' activities to aid in future criminal prosecutions..."

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