Content rating
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A content rating (also known as maturity rating)[1][2] rates the suitability of TV broadcasts, movies, comic books, or video games to its audience.[3][4][5] A content rating usually places a media source into one of a number of different categories, which tell what age group is suitable to view said media. The individual categories include the stated age groups within the category, along with all ages greater than the ages of that category.
See also
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Film
Television
Video games
Internet
- Content-control software
- Internet Content Rating Association
- Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection – RTA "Restricted to Adults" label
- Platform for Internet Content Selection
- Internet Watch Foundation – maintains a website blacklist
Comics
- Comics Code Authority
- Marvel Rating System
- DC Comics rating system
- Viz Media Manga distribution rating system
- Tokyopop American Manga rating system
- Image Comics rating system
Music
- RIAA's Parental Advisory (Explicit Content rating)
Legal Means of content regulation and prohibition
Various
References
- ^ https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2064
- ^ https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Maturity-ratings/ta-p/700119
- ^ "Motion Picture Association of America Film Rating System". www.mpaa.org. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
- ^ "Rating categories, content descriptors, and interactive elements from ESRB". www.esrb.org. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
- ^ "PEGI Pan European Game Information - What are ratings?". www.pegi.info. Archived from the original on 2016-02-08. Retrieved 2016-02-11.