ICRA’s F______g Good Filter

Wired has This One on a new Filter from rsac.org.


They say it\’s designed to \”read\” RSAC\’s \”global labeling system,\” a meta-tag-based taxonomy ICRA uses to describe content on the Internet. The ICRAfilter sits at the operating-system level of a machine and, depending on preferences set by parents, can block access to any sites that match certain categories.

\”We\’ve taken a very open, democratic, modular approach, which is also culturally neutral,\” he said. \”We do not create lists ourselves, we simply create a tool.\” That tool, he said, can be used by any parent to control a child\’s Internet activities to any degree; it\’s all up to the parent, Balkam said. \”