Posted by Don Del Grande on 04/27/07 02:10

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.)

-- Don

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