The V-Chip glass is half full
As a incurable optimist, I would like to offer a view contrary to all the V-Chip doom and gloom. Consider the Movie rating system as a precedent. In the old days there was a rating system in Hollywood which made it impossible to show a married couple sleeping in the same bed. This situation is analogous to modern TV where George Carlin's 7 naughty words may not be spoken. Contrast that with today's movies. There is a much wider latitude about the movies you can make and distribute. All you have to do is label them NC-17, R. or X and you are clean. Of course, there are newspapers which will not allow you to advertise and theaters which will not show the X/NC-17 movies, but that's the way the market works. With some luck, we will be able to see on TV what we can now see in the movie theater, and the prudes will screen it out with the V-Chip the same way they now screen it out with the movie rating. Everyone is (more or less) happy. Panglossianly yours - Bill
frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz) wrote:
With some luck, we will be able to see on TV what we can now see in the movie theater, and the prudes will screen it out with the V-Chip the same way they now screen it out with the movie rating. Everyone is (more or less) happy.
Maybe the courts will rule that if people put an X-rated header flag on their web pages then it's legal because concerned parents can have SurfWatch block it. The result of that would probably be that a large percentage of sites would mark their content X-rated just so they are off the hook legally, whether or not they really have anything pornographic. But I can live with that. -- xx XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx*####w |~~ | | /~~ | / XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx#####* |~~ \ / /\ |\ | |~~ | | < |< XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx*####o o |- >< < > | \ | | |__| \__ | \ XXXXP"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "" o |__ / \ \/ | \| XXXXX:, o 9P^"',
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