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...difficulties" that the FCC faces, says a broadcast executive. "One is that extreme [regulatory] positions are going to run into constitutional problems. The second is inconsistent and vague rulings are going to run into constitutional problems." Another strategy for networks is to argue that the existence of the V chip--a device, mandated on all television sets 13 in. or larger manufactured since 2000, that allows parents to block content considered suspect--demonstrates that there are less intrusive means of controlling content. The PTC counters that the V chip is not ubiquitous or widely used enough and that the voluntary...
...only politicians and activists who experience cognitive dissonance on indecency--so do everyday citizens. They want protection from smut yet don't use the V chip. They talk about competing with pop culture to parent their children yet give kids TVs and computers in their bedrooms. They rail against sex and violence in entertainment, yet--as a group, anyway--reward it and punish the alternatives. The most wholesome new network show of last fall was CBS's Clubhouse, a sweet drama about a teenage bat boy for a baseball team, executive-produced by Mel (The Passion of the Christ) Gibson...
Although the antitrust exemption restricts the players' ability to take management to court, baseball's powerful union has negotiated such favorable free-agency and salary terms for its players that the exemption is no longer crucial. "It's a far smaller chip than Congress thinks it is," says Ganis. Withdrawing the exemption would allow baseball's minor-league teams more freedom to relocate, but many politicians have teams in their districts and want to keep them there...
...battle on the Internet has been as public as the one waged over the Clipper Chip -- the U.S. Government-designed encryption system for encoding and decoding phone calls and E-mail so that they are protected from snooping by everyone but the government itself. The information-should-be-free types on the Internet were strongly opposed to Clipper from the start, not because they were against encryption, ironically, but because they wanted a stronger form of encryption -- encryption for which the government doesn't have a back-door key, as it intends to have with the Clipper system...
...Throughout the game we were just trying to chip away,” Chu said. “The key is to not be frustrated with that...