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31 August 2010
The Internet is a result of developing technologies at a super fast rate. There are good as well as bad effects of every invention, similarly internet has its flaws too. There are certain matters or content as we call it in technological language on the internet that are not suitable for young minds and as internet is a huge and massively loose , it’s very important for parents and
Guardians to keep a check on their viewing contents so that they do not come across potentially harmful contents. There are many parental controls available in the market that basically function by scanning the web contents for possible all harmful materials from the pages
Similarly it’s equally important for large multinational corporations too to have certain control features that do not allow access of information that are extremely undisclosed to public networks.
Let’s know certain points which can help one prepare his/her website for parental control software:
It’s very essential for a web developer to be responsible to the website viewers in order to take care that certain harmful matter or sensitive topics are not made visible on the website.
This becomes very important in case of family oriented websites as well as non family oriented websites.
Some basic guidelines for a setting up a responsible website are
1.Its crucial know what kind of an audience does you website has, if its general audience one needs to be aware of what the audience would expect in terms of the website content.
2. Another point to be careful about is giving warnings , in case you are going to make potentially sensitive matter or a shocking revelation on your website. Anyone can sue a web developer if the visitor clicks a URL that seems to be of a business link but directs him to a pornography site. A warning will not stop the visitor but will protect a gullible on looker.
3. A good suggestion for any web page especially potentially offensive websites would be “Don’t play Games”. Let me explain this to you with an example. Suppose if you visit a website but when you close the browser on that same browser another webpage opens up automatically, if that webpage turns out to be a porn site then that person viewing this in his office surrounding can lose his job.
4. There are many services that prove to be very helpful in self rating a website. This service enables in pointing out the matters or contents of the website. They do not judge the website but simply describe their content, in the form of a code.
Parents, Guardians and Companies then use these ratings to decide which pages would be displayed.
A Variety of parental control software can be used to block the malicious content on any website. There are also software packages like Net nanny that blocks admission to any kind of unsuitable web content on a website.
Finally large multinational corporate may use this software at the server level to block improper content on office networks.
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