At 03:55 PM 2/8/96 -0800, you wrote:
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Tell me whats wrong with this section of the telecom bill. I have a six year old boy I am trying to raise and it is hard enough to teach him respect and values without explaining why Ned Beatty is being bungholed in the woods by Billy Bob or why the Terminator splattered this guys brains all over the wall. Tell me why parents should not be able to censor their OWN television so that they may raise their children the way THEY see fit...................Did your dad give you his old playboys?.........NOOOOO............ Did he take you down to your grandmothers autopsy before her funeral?...................I Don't Think So.....
Agreed. And the government didn't have to force him.
Honestly, don't you believe that what a child is exposed to effects his judgement, perception, attitude,and character??
Yes.
All I'm saying is it's tough to raise a child these days without the added distortion of modern programing and parents need not be denied any tool that can help them achieve success.
Agreed, the question is, should the "V." chip be forced in, by government, or should free-market demand, like your very eloquent demand above, be the engine. I choose the free market. I might think differently about child- rearing than you. I may want my kid to see violence or sex, or I may just not want him/her to see both together. I may want him/her to see the truth about history and hemp, and you may not. That's the point of a free society, I don't get to affect your kid's upbringing, and you don't effect mine. The problems come in when something is forced instead of being allowed to develop naturally in the marketplace ecosystem. In the ecosystem, there would be multiple systems and multiple standards of what is "indecent." Filtering services would flourish, without taxing me. In a coercive government system, I am forced to buy a TV whith a goddam chip I will never use (no kid) and there is one standard, and I get taxed.
(3) The average American child is exposed to 25 hours of television each week and some children are exposed to as much as 11 hours of television a day.
My parents limited me to 1hr / day, after homework, I chose what to view. [But I turned into a guy who is a cypherpunk, likes nice blowjobs, reads Playboy, smokes cigars, etc., so what did they know? <g>
Nuff said, point taken.
(6) Studies indicate that children are affected by the pervasiveness and casual treatment of sexual material on television, eroding the ability of parents to develop responsible attitudes and behavior in their children.
So get rid of your TV altogether! [Some really do, with excellent results.]
Agreed.
(7) Parents express grave concern over violent and sexual video programming and strongly support technology that would give them greater control to block video programming in the home that they consider harmful to their children.
So obviously, the free-marketplace won't work here.
Your right again.
(8) There is a compelling governmental interest in empowering parents to limit the negative influences of video programming that is harmful to children.
There is compelling individual interest in being left alone and taxed less.
And again.
(9) Providing parents with timely information about the nature of upcoming video programming and with the technological tools that allow them easily to block violent, sexual, or other programming that they believe harmful to their children is a nonintrusive and narrowly tailored means of achieving that compelling governmental interest.
And the marketplace will never do _that_!
Alright, Alright already, I can admit defeat..................................Which is more than I can say for most of us.
[Sorry I must be as sarcastic as I am, it's a symptom of Libertarianism;)]
PS -- Much better .sig. THANX Sighpsi.
Thanks for your point of veiw. Charles Donald Smith Jr.
||The government is my shepherd I need not work. It alloweth me to lie down on a good job. It leadeth me beside stilled factories. It destroyeth my initiative. It leadeth me in the path of a parasite for politics sake. YEA, though I walk through the valley of laziness and deficet spending I shall fear no evil, for the government is with me. It prepareth an economic utopia for me by appropriating the earnings of my grandchildren. It filleth my head with false security. My inefficiency runeth over. Surely, the government should care for me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in a fools paradise forever.................AMEN! || nuke'm if ya got'em||