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WASHINGTON: Flesh fanciers everywhere toasted last year's Supreme Court ruling that made the Net safe for porn. Now Playboy is hoping the high court's evident distaste for "indecency" laws will help the company strike down similar rules for cable TV. Currently the FCC says so-called indecent shows can be broadcast only from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. "They're told either scramble their dirty pictures or put them on when there are fewer kids in the audience," explains Bruce Taylor, president of the National Law Center for Children and Families. The Playboy Channel has sued the government...
...Nobody seemed eager to regulate the software industry. Though Leahy said that "intrusive government regulation is not the answer," that leaves unsaid whether the answer might be not-so-intrusive government regulation -- how about, say, an FCC for the software industry...
...Clinton's running mate, and although the job of Vice President is not normally associated with heroic behavior (think George Bush and Walter Mondale), Gore really has been bold. Clinton "was looking for a buddy movie, a political version of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," says former fcc Chairman Reed Hundt, but just to be sure, Gore took the job only after getting a guarantee of regular access to Clinton--their weekly private lunches in Clinton's study...
...Captain Kangaroo. "I think that it's excellent," he says. "Kids need that live person. He talks slowly. It looks to me like it's going to be a significant addition." The show is syndicated, and was created in part to help independent stations satisfy the new FCC regulations. John McDonough, the new Captain, looks disturbingly like Mr. French on Family Affair, and the set is garish, but the show has warmth and charm and maintains a slow pace...
...your item on FCC proposals for installing television V chips in personal computers [NOTEBOOK, Nov. 3]: in seeking comment about whether to put the chips in new PCs, the FCC is following the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which directs the agency to ask questions concerning V chips, including whether PCs that double as TV receivers should be equipped with the chips. These are only proposals and do not include PCs that do not function as TV receivers, nor do they apply to the Internet. My hope is that the computer industry and all interested parties will tell the FCC what...