Posted by SirWilly on 04/28/07 01:54

> 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.

Ahh, more "smaller government".

Bureaucrats have to learn how to resist the temptation to protect us
from "ourselves". And the "protecting the children" BS is just
that...BS, used as an excuse to play Moral Cop to the rest of us.
Besides, if a kid has a parent who doesn't bother supervising them
while the TV is on, chances are little Junior's got a lot more to
worry about than accidentally stumbling across Tony Soprano unloading
a bullet or two.

Tens of millions of kids...all of whom are exposed to TV or gaming
violence every year...and 99.9% of them never go on a shooting
rampage. Yeah, that's some correlation.

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