Internet content rating system gets thumbs up: Survey

Poll finds 95 percent of people believe Web has adverse impact

The majority of people think the authorities should implement an Internet content rating system, with 95 percent of them believing the Internet has adverse impacts on children, the latest online survey shows.

As many as 72 percent of the 1,718 people polled support Internet content ratings, while 11 percent oppose the idea, as China Youth Daily yesterday released the results of the survey jointly conducted by the newspaper and sohu.com.