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The Family Online Safety Institute: Protecting your online future

The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) is an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working to develop a safer internet. ICRA has long believed that self-regulation leads to the best balance between the free flow of digital content and protecting children from potentially harmful material. The centrepiece of the organization is the descriptive vocabulary, often […]

The Family Online Safety Institute: Protecting your online future

The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) is an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working to develop a safer internet. ICRA has long believed that self-regulation leads to the best balance between the free flow of digital content and protecting children from potentially harmful material. The centrepiece of the organization is the descriptive vocabulary, often […]

The Family Online Safety Institute: Protecting your online future

Sites that have been through the ICRAchecked process have been visited by one of the members of ICRA’s team, working to strict guidelines. Therefore the parent should feel confident that the label on the site will not deliver any surprises or dissatisfaction when using systems that make use of ICRA labels in directing children away […]

The Family Online Safety Institute: Protecting your online future

Exposed breasts Bare buttocks Visible genitals Passionate kissing Obscured or implied sexual acts Visible sexual touching Explicit sexual language Erections/explicit sexual acts Erotica No violence Mild expletives No potentially harmful activities No user-generated content The label declares that it was issued on 2007-11-17 Labels file is in ICRAchecked database The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) […]

The Family Online Safety Institute: Wir engagieren uns für ein sichereres Internet

Wir haben von seltenen Fällen erfahren, in denen Websites, die durch Firewalls geschützt werden, nach dem Hinzufügen von Kennzeichnungen nicht mehr verfügbar waren. Der Grund dafür ist, dass die Datei labels.rdf als eine RDF-Datei deklariert wird. Die Firewall jedoch überprüft die Datei, wenn sie die Firewall durchläuft, und stellt dabei fest, dass es sich um […]