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V-Chip And Television Censorship - Essays

V-Chip And Television Censorship

There's far too much sex and violence available to our children today.
Appropriate steps must be taken to shield our young ones from these dangerous influences. Fortunately Congress and the President have signed into legislation a bill allowing parents to block sex and violence from their television sets.
The Television Decoder Circuitry Act of 1993 required all new televisions sold in the United States to contain a chip to decode closed-captioning4 signals. The basic technology needed to implement the V-chip is the same as that currently used for closed-captioning.
Program rating information would be transmitted along with the television signal, and be decoded by a chip in each ...

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government (either directly or by coercing private industry),and not the parents, that will determine how programs will be rated. If a parent activates the v-chip, all programs with a "violent" rating will be blocked. What kind of violence will be censored? Football games? War movies? News reports?"
Even though the V-chip legislation has already been signed into law by the President, it remains at the heart of a heated political battle. The strongest objection raised to the V-chip by its opponents is that it violates the First Amendment Rights of the broadcasters. They claim that the government is imposing a system of censorship that will lead to "blander" and "less dramatic" television.14
I feel that the V-chip is a wonderfull tool for parents to use in raising there kids. I also don't think anbodies rights a being violated because you ...

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