Internet Content Rating Association
The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) was an independent, international non-profit organization that a filter system for protection of minors from Internet - content (s: content ) to protect made available to protect children from potentially harmful content.
ICRA was initially merged into the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), based in Washington DC (USA) and Brighton (UK) . FOSI gradually discontinued active support for the ICRA label format for websites in practice without officially ending it. In October 2010 the ICRA website was taken offline. Nevertheless, the ICRA label continues to spread internationally on the websites of providers who publish potentially unsuitable content on the Internet for minors.
ICRA was approved as a model test by the Commission for the Protection of Young People in the Media (KJM), but the model test failed. ICRA was founded by online service providers such as the Bertelsmann Stiftung , Microsoft , AOL , T-Online and Verizon .
Labeling process
In order to be allowed to mark a website with the ICRA label, the webmaster had to fill out an online questionnaire regarding content relevant to the protection of minors. ICRA then created a small HTML code ( meta tag ) that was inserted into the source text of the page by the webmaster (self labeling).
See also
Web links
- Official website of the ICRA (English - only one page available without further links)
- ICRA conclusion by Phil Archer (English - Phil Archer was a central ICRA employee for many years)
- ICRA label generator from JusProg eV (German - menu item label generator)
