What Is CRS and How It Works
Ratings are designed to give users some summarized understanding of the content that they are about to access. At the same time it provides new liberty to content providers to express themselves without taking a responsibility of the scope of their audience. By applying an adequate CRS filter, users may enjoy only the appropriate content, and be spared of any related inconveniences.
Quality Content Rating System (CRS) implementation should accomplish three major goals:
- To protect children on the Internet
- To protect freedom of expression on the Internet
- To set up a hotline to handle complaints about obscene and indecent content on the internet
The reasons for a rating being associated with a particular content might not be readily apparent from the rating itself; potentially relevant factors may include:
- The nature of the language used
- Graphic violence being presented in the text or media files
- Certain types of "explicit sexual content" being exposed
Internet is interactive tool, with a lot of content provided by users through online forms and upload procedures. Internet sites that provides interactive services bears huge responsibility of adequate content moderation. If moderators think that an item is inappropriately rated as defined by the established guidelines, they should adjust the rating accordingly. Also, documented procedures should be applied whenever CRS restrictions are being breached, with exact set of measures toward a non obeying users.
On other hand, CRS must not be a tool for censoring or influencing the public view on regularly provided content.
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