Out of Pod Experience

Welllllll, **** is not a PG-13 word so, his own self censoring was not enough. That being said I am not going to weigh in on the ethics of this just yet. I will have to do some more reading and research. My initial thoughts are that this is justified as this is not censorship, it is a rating system and we have had to deal with those since, well at least since they started rating comics back in the 1950's (?)

I will throw the following in as it is one of my favorite songs that was created in retaliation to the labeling of music albums back in the late 80's early 90's.

Starting up a posse Not safe for....well most places

They way I took it was that the OP believes that EvE is not really as bad as many have made it out to be and that the web comics he reads are so 'tame' to make EvE seem like it is the bastion of individuals that follow a 'philosophy' that the Marquis de Sade would enjoy.

Either way both points/examples actually have nothing to do with what the OP is woried about and obfuscated the OP's worries.

Oh, yes I agree that the code caused and/or reinforced unnecessary social stigmas, but that did not happen in the 80's with the parental movement to label music. This system seems to give advertisers a metric to determine if they want their product to be advertised on a certain site. The internet is not like publication advertisement. If a company does not want to be affiliated with published pornographic material they, plain and simple, do not pay to be advertised in said magazines. On the internet, the way I minimally understand how advertising works, the companies have had little say as to where their adds gets presented and this is giving them some sort of ability to control what their products are associated with.

Good or bad....this has yet to be determined, but I am leaning towards not that big of a deal.

LOL, I truly did not plan to come back to this thread. But I was given an alert other people posted (maybe because I started the thread).

Anyway, somebody asked what webcomics I read that were so calm. I read 38 webcomics on a daily basis. Some of them, the title is the 'worst' part of them.

Here is a short list:

Devil's Panties (where this alert came from)
Order of the Stick
Looking for Group
Sandra and Woo
Rascals
Gunnerkreig Court
Puck
Gaia
Uberquest
Milo's Mark
School Spirit
Draconian Chronicles
Questionable Content

As I said above, in paper publication, advertisers are either directly confronted by the publication to advertise or a company approaches a publication to solicite advertisement space. In certain situations there is no option for advertisers to decide where their product is advertised on the internet, as far as I know. So quite honestly the writters of the web comics, game sites, and any other site, do not necessarily have a right to know that this organization exists....imho

For a long time now owners of web sites have recieved payment for little to no work on their part, in the sense of searching for advertisers willing to support their publication/site, and many companies have unwillingly been advertised on sites they may not want to be associated with. Publishers have no 'right' to these advertisements honestly and companies have a right to decide where they are advertised.

P.S. You should check Goblins out since you read Order of the Stick.

But are they actively hiding? It did not take the one author that loing to figure out something was wrong.

Again, I do not know much about the program itself as I have not had a chance to research anything yet as I am in the middle of house purchase and move. My thoughts are still leaning towards it will help advertisers control where they are advertised which is comepletely within their rights. Over time I figure the program will work itself out and become less sensitive towards instances like censoring The Order of the Stick for nudity LMAO!!!....but I will admit I could still be completely wrong