In fact, one of the PICS creators recently wrote in Scientific American that such approaches to labeling may "tend to stifle noncommercial communication" and that it is possible that, in the wake of filtering-out, "the Internet will function more like broadcasting, providing access only to sites with sufficient mass-market appeal to merit the cost of labeling" (see March 97, "Filtering Information on the Internet" and http://www.sciam.com/0397issue/0397resnick.html).