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..... Honestly, don't you believe that what a child is exposed to effects his judgement, perception, attitude,and character?? 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. SEC. 551. PARENTAL CHOICE IN TELEVISION PROGRAMMING. (a) FINDINGS- The Congress makes the following findings: (1) Television influences children's perception of the values and behavior that are common and acceptable in society. (2) Television station operators, cable television system operators, and video programmers should follow practices in connection with video programming that take into consideration that television broadcast and cable programming has established a uniquely pervasive presence in the lives of American children. (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. (4) Studies have shown that children exposed to violent video programming at a young age have a higher tendency for violent and aggressive behavior later in life than children not so exposed, and that children exposed to violent video programming are prone to assume that acts of violence are acceptable behavior. (5) Children in the United States are, on average, exposed to an estimated 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television by the time the child completes elementary school. (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. (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. (8) There is a compelling governmental interest in empowering parents to limit the negative influences of video programming that is harmful to children. (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. 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||