Word: censorship
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...clearly reminiscent, for instance, of Tipper Gore's campaign for warning labels on compact discs. Rather than admitting to censorship, they insist that increasing awareness of potential corrupters of children is the goal. The device is meant as a way to monitor viewing as more households are made up of working parents and television programming becomes more and more extensive...
However, there are strong practical objections to the V chip. At worst, it elicits cries of censorship. At best, the task of both defining what constitutes violence and getting broadcasters to agree to a potentially self-defeating high violence rating seems both enormous and unrealistic. Further, assigning an objectionable level of violence rather than allowing parents to guide what their children watch on a program-by-program basis may prove that viewing will become more arbitrary instead of less...
Beyond just the potential problems with random censorship, though, this device, costly to make and promote, is a small drop in the bucket towards combating violence. Rather than worrying about what is coming into the house on the television screen, parents should worry about what the children will face when they emerge from the house...
...agency as censor of the speech carried over computer networks. I have sponsored an alternative legislative approach to study ways to empower parents, not the government, to decide what is appropriate for their children to access on the Internet. Rather than stifling the continued development of the Internet with censorship, we should encourage the marketplace to develop services, software and the technical means to enable parents and other computer users to control the information transmitted to their home or business computers. PATRICK J. LEAHY U.S. Senator, Vermont Washington...
...ironic that in a decade when freedom is a strong theme throughout the world, the U.S. allows itself to move in a direction that resembles that of Iran? How many Americans will find themselves jailed because of censorship laws? Why do Americans allow themselves to be bullied by extremist religious leaders and hysterical conservatives? Why is so much prison space occupied by perpetrators of victimless, "moral" crimes? BOB ROWELL Collingswood, New Jersey