Separation of Church and Microsoft

theodp writes "Last week, the USPTO published a rather odd Microsoft patent application for Content Ratings and Recommendations, which describes how religious-based communities and other 'subcultures' can use the patent-pending process to prevent their members from viewing undesirable television programs and movies."

Comments

Re:Am I the only one ...

[morgan_greywolf]

Yeah yeah I'm all for people's rights to raise kids however they want, but I'm also for the rights of kids to not be brainwashed by david-koresh-worshipping freaks or indoctrinated into neo-nazi-ideology and such at an age where they are too young to have an educated opinion about it ... That's the beautiful catch isnt it? These crazy belief systems -require- their members to brainwash the kids ... who then grow up and think its the "normal" thing to do to spread the brainwashing, and if you try and stick up for the rights of the kids than everyone bitches and whines that you are "trampling" the rights/beliefs/values of the brainwashing parent I hear ya, man. But do you know what the difference is between the 'brainwashing' techniques of the david-koresh-worshipping freaks or the 'indoctrination' methods of the neo-nazi idelogy and those of most so-called 'mainstream' religions?

None. None at all, my friend.

Frightening, isn't it?

And that is precisely why everyone bitches if you stick up for the rights of children to not be brainwashed in the way you just put it -- because, to quote Spock, a difference which makes no difference is no difference.

I see a big benefit from this, Block TV Evangelism

[Timmy D Programmer]

I would certainly setup my TV to block material I find offensive, (Infomercials and TV Evangelists).

Re:What's wrong with that?

[renegadesx]

This is "Christ Lock XP"