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Posted by Barbara Bailey on 04/27/07 09:00
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:27:37 -0500, Alric Knebel
<alric@[cableone.net]> wrote:
>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:
>>>
>>>
>>>>SFTVratings wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>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.)
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
Whether the kids can get through it depends largely on how I construct
it and how I maintain it. In other words, I have to expend some effort
to make it work. This is clearly more than that woman feels is
justified; she wants someone else to parent her kids for her.
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