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Talk 5, Page 8

PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection)

The Internet, and particularly the Web, is in wide public use.
In the U.S. there is concern over children's access to indecent material.
Allowing third-parties to classify information is a generally powerful tool that can be used to address this problem directly.
Provide the ability to control the information that can be received without censoring the network itself.