Yep this is the first time I've disagreed with the EFF on anything civil liberties related.

My view is that there's no reason why we can't come together and come up with a rating system for websites (through HTTP headers, there are already a couple proposals, the RTA header and another W3C proposal).

Once a website just sends a header saying this is adult only content, what YOU as a user do with it is up to you. You could restrict it at the OS level (which is another thing we ALREADY have).

This would match the current system, which allows households to set their devices to block whatever they want, and the devices get metadata from the content producers.

No ID checks needed.

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kmoser 2 days ago | parent [-]

> My view is that there's no reason why we can't come together and come up with a rating system for websites

There's no way everybody will agree what constitutes "adult only content," therefore there's no way to come up with a rating for websites.

	▲	atonse 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have to imagine porn sites don’t want an underage audience either. So I think they would voluntarily state that their content is adult only. This isn’t rocket science. We’ve rated content for decades. We simply can’t be obtuse about this and throw our hands up and do nothing because we can’t tell if obvious things like porn are adult only content the way we’ve done on every other medium.