So how is this different from the rather draconian “Television Without Frontiers” proposal from EU, which most major media companies are opposing? The British Board of Film Classification is now proposing to the UK government that online video content should receive certificate — comparable to its U, PG, 12A, 15 and 18 categories for films — from film censors. “If there’s some sort of standardised labelling system that people understand, then they know that it’s material they can trust,” said a BBFC spokesperson.
Times Online: Simon Davies, of Privacy International, which campaigns for freedom of expression, told The Times: “It sounds like the most stupid intervention since the registration of fax machines and photocopiers in communist China.”
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