Posted by Barbara Bailey on 04/27/07 03:05

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.)

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