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Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors

Posted by kdawson on from the you-are-what-you-block dept.

unlametheweak recommends an Ars Technica report that the US Senate has unanimously passed a bill requiring the FCC to explore what "advanced blocking technologies" are available to parents to help filter out "indecent or objectionable programming." "...the law does focus on empowering parents to take control of new media technologies to deal with undesired content, rather than handing the job over to the government. It asks the FCC to focus the inquiry on blocking systems for a 'wide variety of distribution platforms,' including wireless and Internet, and an array of devices, including DVD players, set top boxes, and wireless applications."

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  1. Re:They're parents by sakdoctor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can parents detain their kids for 42 days without trial?
    Force them to hand over encryption keys?
    Waterboarding?

    Obviously these parental powers need to be enshrined in law.

  2. Re:They're parents by gomiam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can parents detain their kids for 42 days without trial?

    Isn't that called grounding? And, considering some kids' reaction to showers, one would think they were being waterboarded ;-)

  3. Re:Positive Changes by novakreo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Funny, I always got "Do you think money grows on trees?" which is a terribly strange question to ask a child with no concept of where money DOES come from. You eventually learn the correct answer is "no", but you still have no idea WHY the answer is "no".

    Hang on, isn't American money still made of paper?

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