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Originally Posted by tompe
But they will provide other pressure. The will provide pressure to authors to make their books confirm to what is perceived to be allowed content for a specific marketing label.
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I feel like I agreed with this already in 2008 but I can't find my post, so I might not have gotten around to writing it. So, I agree. I'm against any sort of systematic and mandatory rating or tagging system that's imposed by a sanctioned organization rather than built up by the community. A wikipedia-style catalogue of book tags, with all the internal struggling and sensitivity to consensus would be interesting; an MPAA for books with associated enforcement against potential readers would be horrible.