The Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) is a specification created by W3C that uses metadata to label webpages to help parents and teachers control what children and students can access on the Internet. The W3C Protocol for Web Description Resources project integrates PICS concepts with RDF.
Internet Explorer 3 was one of the early web browsers to offer support for PICS, released in 1996. Internet Explorer 5 added a feature called approved sites, that allowed extra sites to be added to the list in addition to the PICS list when it was being used.[1]
PICS has had negligible uptake on the World Wide Web and Microsoft dropped support for it in IIS 7.0
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Controversy
PICS is designed to allow the blocking of web traffic at any point along its route (An Internet provider, a corporate hub, or an individual user). This standard from W3C will effectively eliminate Net Neutrality.[citation needed]
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References
- ^ New Features in Internet Explorer 5, Microsoft Knowledgebase Article Q221787
- Paul Resnick; James Miller (1996). "PICS: Internet Access Controls Without Censorship". Communications of the ACM 39 (10): 87–93. doi:. http://www.w3.org/PICS/iacwcv2.htm.
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