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The Keyboards for Christ Music Ministry and the Staff of the Dove Award Program surf the internet for site's that do not comply with the family friendly or Safe Surf outline and target young people. Working with Safe Surf and ICRA we have taken several sites that target young people off their respective hosts. If your site is not Family safe and has Adult content then your pic's will define such. It is those sites that list family friendly and safe that post pics that state such is what The W.O.R.D. program seeks out and moves those site's into compliance with the organizations that they so post that they are family safe. Dear Daniel, We have realized, as a result of your email, that we need to further define the SafeSurf rating standard to include "Age appropriate discussions". We agree that although the presentation of some material should not be filtered on the basis of politics or religion, it may be filtered on its appropriateness for young children. Therefore, the site you suggested should not exhibit an "All Age" rating since a reasonable person would determine that it not suited for young minds. We will further define our standard to account for this type of situation and hold all sites to this standard.
First published in 2000, the original ICRA descriptors were determined through a process of international consultation to establish a content labelling system that gives reasonable consistency across different cultures and languages. Whilst every effort was made to create objective descriptors, some subjectivity is inevitable. Furthermore, some ambiguities may arise through translation. For these reasons additional definitions and explanations are provided to support some descriptors A label or PIC is placed withing the code or html of a website. The drf or rating is located on the host site provided by the Rating service that issues it to the site. Example What is a Rating Service?
ICRA Label exlainations from their web site PICS, the Platform for Internet Content Selection, is a technological standard which allows web browsers to read the rating labels for, and block, sites based on their rating. Website operators submit their site for rating by a third-party rating agency. Based upon the information voluntarily submitted by the website operators about content at the site, the site is rated. PICS then sends them a code that must be added to the HTML coding at the top of their site. While this code is invisible to us, it is read by your browser and allows or denies access to the site, depending upon the rating criteria set in your browser. Microsoft's Internet Explorer versions 3.0 and higher support PICS and Netscape's next version of Navigator will include PICS capability too. That allows good site accessibility, and bad site blocking. Unfortunately, since so few sites are rated, selecting this software means your children can only access the rated "good" sites. Only 40,000 are currently rated. Limiting access to only preapproved sites may err on the side of being overly protective over your children's access to content on the Internet, but if the choice is between allowing your child to access only preapproved content, or not permitting them to be online at all, there's no choice. Even limited access is better than no access. Until more sites are rated (an effort we support), we recommend using another parental control system, hopefully, one that supports PICS compatible ratings. This website is proud to be one of the 40,000 that supports and is a rated site and holds the labels (PICS) for family friendly for viewing of all ages. If a site is coded with a PIC or labelled Family Friendly it should carry a green light. Below is a discription of Green, Amber, Red from ICRA The International rating association. This website is also the founder and author of the W.O.R.D. rating program which holds to the highest standard of the Bible.        What the tester will show you
GREEN means all the Pics are in order on your page, but not the entire site.
Labelled with ICRA http://keyboardsforchrist.com/ is labelled
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