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Posted by Alric Knebel on 04/27/07 06:27
UncleDave wrote:
> "Barbara Bailey" <rabrabbjb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:9tp23352knish8665dfk90u1fd1vb8o81v@4ax.com...
>
>>On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:10:57 -0700, Don Del Grande
>><del_grande_news@earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>>SFTVratings wrote:
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>>>>EvWill wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>The report -- commissioned by members of Congress in 2004 and based on
>>>>>hundreds of comments from parents, industry officials, academic
>>>>>experts and others -- concludes that Congress has the authority to
>>>>>regulate "excessive violence" and to extend its reach for the first
>>>>>time into basic-cable TV channels that consumers pay to receive.
>>>>
>>>>Woah. Wait. Hold on.
>>>>
>>>>By WHAT authority does Congress regulate basic cable? That's NOT over-
>>>>the-air. It's NOT something you can see by accidentally turning on
>>>>your television (like over-the-air broadcast). Basic cable only
>>>>enters the home BY CONSENT of the home-owners. If they don't like
>>>>what they see, all they need to do is unplug the cable & it's gone.
>>>
>>>That's kind of like saying "if they don't like what they see on
>>>over-the-air, they can unplug the TV." I heard one woman say
>>>something along the lines of, "I shouldn't have to risk stumbling onto
>>>a sexual assault on fX just so my child can watch the Disney Channel."
>>>
>>>(Translation: force a la carte channel selection.
>>>
>>>Solution: require the ability to be put into TVs and cable boxes - you
>>>pay for all of the channels in a package, and disable the ones you
>>>don't want.)
>>
>>
>>Funny. That's exactly how my satellite provider works now. I can
>>lock-out any channel I want. Access is password-protected, so that I
>>can watch (for example) Spike if I want to, but my hypothetical kids
>>couldn't (unless they figured out the password, in which case, I can
>>change it to something else.)
>>
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>
> You can keep out hypothetical kids easily enough, but real ones will get
> around it in no time.
There's no way they could figure out a password.
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