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Introduction With its massive recent growth and popularity, the Internet faces a dilemma that other forms of media have already resolved: censorship. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) quickly recognized the issues surrounding censorship and in May 1995, its members began working on the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS). W3C recently issued PICS specifications as a W3C Recommendation. PICS establishes Internet conventions for label format and distribution methods, while dictating neither a labeling vocabulary nor who should pay

(PICS) A standard for meta-data associated with World-Wide Web content, originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet, but also used for code signing and privacy. The PICS platform is one on which other rating services and filtering software have been built. There may be many popular meanings for PICS with the most popular definition being that of Platform for Internet Content Selection, Plug-in Inventory Control System, Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement Platform for Internet Content