At 04:33 PM 4/24/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
The Center for Media Education is trying to accelerate this process. In a fearmongering report earlier this year, the group demanded that a slew of government agencies -- the FCC, FDA, FTC, CDC, NCI, and the WHO -- take "urgent agction" to "protect" America's children from tobacco and liquor advertising online.
Sigh. Guess we'll have to do another information-logo-on-web-page campaign. The real question is whether we should be in-your-face about it and use a Joe Camel icon for the "Fight Commercial Censorship" campaign, or something civilized like the many beer and wine company logos on the net. "Fight censorship on the net - have a Beer!" Would Mr. Butts be available? Meanwhile, back on Television, the "We know what's best for you" program ratings are getting panned by everyone. I almost wonder if the TV moguls decided to do a deliberately unsatisfactory rating system rather that giving the censorship people the amount of control they want? The proposed "sex/violence/language" ratings left out an important category many parents would like in deciding what their kids can watch -- "Greed". And neither the proposed nor the enacted systems rates commercials.... So you won't be able to set that V-Chip to auto-block commercials. PYRBBROW.GIF # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)
