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US Attorney General Calls for Website Ratings

Laws and Politicians, Mostly Bad

Here's a Bush administration move sure to make people who write about their sexuality unhappy:

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.

A mandatory rating system will "prevent people from inadvertently stumbling across pornographic images on the Internet," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said at an event in Alexandria, Va.

Gonzales calls for mandatory Web labeling law

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are tv ratings a law? because i know that movie ratings are -not- a law. i'm not against ratings in general. but making it a law is kind of unprecedented, isn't it?

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