Germany will Start the Implementation of Internet Content Rating System
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Germany responsible for web content classification system bodies "voluntary self-control multimedia service provider association" legal adviser Vollmers held in Munich, Germany presented the German media, the General Assembly's upcoming Internet content rating system.
Vollmers said that under this system, website, mobile content providers and other telecommunication media must complete a detailed online questionnaire to answer the service is included "Sex and violence against young people's content", according to This will automatically be graded according to a uniform grading standard reply. This measure combined with filtering software, which can make young people only see the age when the Internet allows browsing of the content. Age classification was "6 years of age, 12 years of age, 16 or 18 years of age."
This will enhance Internet content management for Germany's latest measures. The legal basis for the measure is "protection of national youth media Treaty", the latest revision of the treaty in June this year by the governor of the federal states of Germany jointly approved and will take effect January 1 next year. Under the treaty, Internet content providers the obligation to make their identity, age appropriate content, and then by the parents to decide whether under the relevant software filters. Therefore, the key elements of the new treaty was described as "identification and filtering."
Responsible for overseeing the implementation of the treaty bodies are agencies of the federal states and the federal level media management "Youth Media Protection Committee", which in 2005 confirmed that "Multimedia Service Providers Association, a voluntary self-control" the media "voluntary self-regulation" of industry Association. Therefore, the development of a classification system falls to the body of this Association.
As of 2009, Germany, a total of 4350 million Internet users, accounting for more than half of the total population, 96.1% of them aged 14 to 29 year-olds often online. Therefore, the protection of the healthy growth of young people to become an important issue of concern to the German public. April 1, 2003, Germany passed its first "Youth Media Protection State Treaty," Since then, the treaty was modified in order to constantly improve. This year, as Chairman of the Joint German state governors Levin method modified by Baker, Governor of the State, said the new treaty, the federal states have the obligation to provide parents with the means to protect young people. Bavarian governor's office officials Potter Hastert said at the meeting, the introduction of this "filtering software Classification Mark added," the technical means Germany is expected to further improve the existing youth media protection system, but he also stressed that the new approach can not replace government "youth media protection Committee" of the web content of external regulation. In addition, he also stressed that: "even the best rating system can not replace the responsibility of the parents."
Vollmers statement by the current classification standards "is almost complete." But it was also the objective of the grading standards are different views. "Youth Media Protection Committee," Wei Gander officials acknowledged that this automated response mechanism is also suspected by some people. It seems the new treaty is valid, have the test of practice. |
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