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U.K. Plans to Ask U.S. for Website Ratings

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The U.K. minister for culture plans to not only work to establish a movie style ratings system for Web sites, but to work with the Obama administration to implement a similar program within the United States, Reuters reports. As of now, there has been no response from the president-elect.

The kind of ratings used for films could be applied to websites in a bid to better police the Internet and protect children from harmful and offensive material, Britain's minister for culture has said.

Andy Burnham told The Daily Telegraph newspaper, published on Saturday, that the government was planning to negotiate with the administration of President-elect Barack Obama to draw up new international rules for English language websites.

“The more we seek international solutions to this stuff--the UK and the U.S. working together—the more that an international norm will set an industry norm," the newspaper reports the Culture Secretary as saying in an interview.

Giving websites film-style ratings would be one possibility.

“This is an area that is really now coming into full focus," Burnham told the paper.

Internet service providers could also be forced to offer services where the only sites accessible are those deemed suitable for children, the paper said.

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