platform for internet content selection

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platform for internet content selection - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Platform for Internet Content Selection
  PICS
  
     <World-Wide Web> (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.
  
     (http://w3.org/PICS).
  
     (2001-03-29)