Beamed PICS Rating Generator

PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection), is a scheme allowing the rating of HTML and other documents for content, such as age-sensitive material.

For URL:
You may specify an entire site, a directory tree, or a single file. The rating tag must be applied to the correct URL or site, otherwise the pages will be inaccessible to all ratings users.

By: (email or contact URL)
The person responsible for the rating, who may be contacted if the ratings are challenged.

Categories

Category values are presented most-desireable-first. Browsers will typically pass documents with one of the first N possible values, where the number N is set by a parent or password holder.

Category: Multiculturalism

Description:
Representation of multi-cultural activity or activities from another culture

Interactive: Active involvement of user in multicultural activity using interactive techniques.
Promotion: Active promotion of multiculturalism.
Positive: Multicultural events presented in context; artistic work presented in the original culture.
Neutral: No cultural context; reference works, dictionaries, catalogs.
Negative: Multicultural events presented from a monoculture viewpoint; translation of artistic work from one culture into another for other than artistic reasons
Demotion: Actively discourages multiculturalism; one culture or religion is defined as the only true culture

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Category: Educational Content

Interactive: Active involvement of user in educational activity using interactive techniques.
Educational: Educational material, created specifically to educate.
Informative: Informational material, dictionaries, catalogs, factual accounts, works of literature, works of art, etc.
None: Devoid of educational or artistic content.
Misinformation: Presents information known to be false as fact; e.g. Holocaust denial.

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Category: Environmental Awareness

Interactive: Active involvement of user in environmentally positive activity using interactive techniques.
Promotion: Encouragement of environmental awareness.
Positive: Portrayal of environmentally sensitive behaviour; recycling, conservation, proper disposal etc.
Neutral: No environmental content
Negative: Portrayal of environmentally insensitive behaviour by minor characters; pollution of resources, improper disposal.
Demotion: Promotion of environmentally damaging behaviour by role-model figures; destruction of resources, habitat, animal species.

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Category: Tolerance

Promotion: Promotion of tolerant behaviour.
Positive: Portrayal of tolerant behaviour.
Neutral: No Intolerant content; reference works, etc.
Negative: Portrayal of intolerant behaviour by minor characters
Intolerance: Portrayal of intolerant behaviour by role-model figures.
Active Intolerance: Promoting hatred based on differences in religion, culture, race, sexual orientation etc.
Unlimited Intolerance: Active promotion of intolerant behaviour; calling for ethnic cleansing, Jihad, genocide etc.

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Category: Violence

None: No violent content.
Reference: Reference works portraying violence, news with violent content.
Minor: In-context violence by minor characters, self-defence by role models.
Major: In-context violence by role model characters.
Extreme: Frequent violence by role models, promotion of violent behaviour, treatment of human beings as disposable objects, rape.
Unlimited: Killing, torture, rape in creation of entertainment product. Snuff movies. Active involvement of the user in violent activity using teleoperator techniques, remote controlled torture of animals or humans.

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Category: Sex

None: No sexual content.
Minor: Implicit in-context sexual conduct by consenting adults; no nudity.
Reference: Reference works portraying sex, reproduction; educational material.
Nudity: In-context sexual conduct by consenting adults; nudity, no penetration. Out-of-context sexual conduct, partial nudity; sex used as a promotional tool.
Normal: In-context sexual conduct by consenting adults; vaginal penetration of female by male only.
Other: Sexual conduct by consenting adults; penetration, anal, toys. Interactive viewing of sexual activity using videoconference techniques.
Interactive: Active involvement of the user in sexual activity using teleoperator techniques, tactile virtual reality.
Unlimited: Non-consensual sex, rape, sex with minors, animals; mutilation, torture.

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Category: Profanity

None: No profanity.
Reference: Reference works, dictionaries.
Minor: Occasional profanity by minor characters; mild in-context profanity by role model characters.
Major: Frequent profanity by role model characters.
Unlimited: Constant profanity by all characters.

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Category: Safety

Description:
Treatment of personal and general safety issues

Active: Active promotion of safe work and personal behaviour.
Positive: Portrayal of safe behaviour by role-models. Technical manuals and books describing safe practice.
Neutral: No safety-related content.
Negative: Promotion of unsafe behaviour. Drug use, reckless driving by role models. Suggestions that safe behaviour is effeminate or unmanly.
Misleading: Presentation of misleading information, that if acted on could result in injury or death. Representation of known harmful activities such as smoking as beneficial.

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Category: American Content

All: All-American content
Some: Some American content or production
None: No American content

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Category: Commercial Content

None: No commercial content; no advertising material.
Minor: Minor commercial content, corporate sponsorship, low-key advertising.
Major: Major commercial content, high-impact advertising, infomercials
Interactive: Online purchasing of products or services.

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Category: Gambling

None: No gambling or games of chance.
Fun: Games of chance for fun only; no monetary value of stakes or prizes.
No-stake: Limited games of chance, no monetary value of stakes.
Unlimited: Games of chance where stakes must be purchased or have amonetary value.

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