Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Opponents complain that the V chip smacks of censorship. Senator Robert Dole, no friend of lewd popular culture, rails against the chip as bringing us "one step closer to government control of what we see on television." While the Senate bill calls for broadcasters to devise their own rating system, it mandates the government to appoint a commission to do so if TV programmers fail to construct one within a year. Such industry agreement seems unlikely...
...enables politicians to take a stand on violence with relatively little pain. "Look," says a Commerce Committee staff member whose boss opposes the V chip but still may support it, "it's easier to make a case for it than against it." Said Clinton last week: "This is not censorship. This is parental responsibility." And that's a difficult notion to oppose...
...really of any significance. The real issue is that governments and politicians are worried about the global freedom of information that the net represents. They are using high-profile, low-significance stories to sway public opinion and give them the power to clamp down on the net. Censorship for the sake of children would be only a first step. The would-be censors don't give a damn about protecting young minds; they want to control them. But the freedom of information on the Internet is beyond them: the individual is empowered. STEPHEN GARRIGA Woking, England...
While I am not necessarily in favor of censorship and all the inherent problems it presents, I do feel strongly that something must be done to prevent deviants from destroying the minds of future generations. BARBARA K. LAMB Maple Shade, New Jersey...
...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