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Posted by: Arthur B. (Tuesday 23 May 2006, 10:03 PM)

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The solution is simple. As usual it's not a centralized one but a decentralized one. Nations can force ISP's within their country to inject certain phrases within the HTML code provided by whatever web server wordlwide. Those injected phrases could be determined by the results of the analysis by a national agency (thus making it possible to come up with localized solutions) of the HTML code in question. Which then can be used to label whatever HTML code with whatever label desired thus allowing to classify such HTML code. The only thing needed, globally, would be a global common way to introduce the injected phrase into the web browser used by the citizen in question. Otherwise such an approach would be known as a common standard or format that's open to national interpretation on the labelling level.

The above would allow nations to make known to their citizens which content gets labeled how by them (but risk global reactions if they go to far in that). At the same time allow ISP's within that nation to allow for their own interpretation (but risk national reactions if they go to far in that). And allow individuals to make their own interpretations (but risk localized reactions if they go to far in that).

Best of all, it won't make anyone filthy rich just by dominating a certain sector yet it allows for localized fine tuning as desired but also allows anyone subject to that to make known to the world what's happening. In short: self regulating.

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