Software Filters and Content Rating on the Internet Questionnaire


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The Internet has over 55 million pages of content created by individuals, companies, non-profit organizations, and so on, posted on over 2 million Web sites worldwide.  There are also many conversational areas on the Internet, including chat rooms and bulletin boards where people exchange messages on tens of thousands of subjects. Somewhere around 100 million people worldwide currently communicate over the Internet.

Software filters can be used to block an individual’s access to certain content and speech on the Internet. Content can be blocked according to a list of known Web sites or a list of particular words appearing on Web sites or other areas of the Internet. Content can also be blocked because it has been labeled with a particular rating.  Such ratings would describe the contents of the Web site or speech according to a particular standard.

In this survey, we are interested in your opinion about these important issues. The survey should take about ten minutes to complete.

Objectionable Content on the Internet

1. How informed are you regarding the issues of software filters, labeling content according to a particular rating, and blocking an individual's access to certain content and speech on the Internet?
I am very informed about these issues.
I am moderately informed about these issues.
I am only slightly informed about these issues.
This survey is the first time I have heard about these issues.

 

Software Filters

Content Labeling & Rating

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This questionnaire was developed by:
Donna Hoffman and Tom Novak, Project 2000, Vanderbilt University