Britain's minister of culture, Andy Burnham, hopes to implement website ratings, in tandem with Obama and the U.S. government. Sites would receive a rating, much in the way films do.

This site would get a C for "cranky but cute" (hey, you try dealing with Hollywood loonies harassing you all the time and see how you'd react).

Drudge Report would get an L for "link-y."

Pop Sugar would get an N for "nice" (you know, you could slap a celebrity online once in a while LOL).

Perez Hilton would get a G for "gay and grumpy" and a PG for "pure gossip."

CNN would get an R for "recycled."

Seriously, the ratings most likely would look nothing like that. It would be based on language and content.
 

Websites could get cinema-style ratings

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...

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