Protect The Children from naughty videos!

The latest fun bill to make its way through Congress: the Family Movie
Act, which is being proposed to allow parents to censor out
objectionable content in movies and programs on video. Of course, how
will they be able to edit their home videos and DVDs? Only by using
technology provided by good old "moralistic" companies who keep track
of all the naughty, nasty, bad things being released on video these
days. Yet again, it's time to Protect The Children through censorship!

http://www.grassfire.org/39/petition.asp

Modemac

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> The latest fun bill to make its way through Congress: the Family Movie
> Act, which is being proposed to allow parents to censor out
> objectionable content in movies and programs on video. Of course, how
> will they be able to edit their home videos and DVDs? Only by using
> technology provided by good old "moralistic" companies who keep track
> of all the naughty, nasty, bad things being released on video these
> days. Yet again, it's time to Protect The Children through censorship!
>
> http://www.grassfire.org/39/petition.asp
>

This is another complete waste of our government's time and our tax money.

Here's the free solution that no one in government or religion : DON'T BUY,
RENT or WATCH a movie rated higher than "G"....that's what ratings are for,
a head's-up!!

This reference to religion is not meant as an anti-religion statement, just
to the 0.0000000001% of the average church-goer who wants to make everyone
else suffer by trying to force government to change long-standing freedoms
because they misunderstand their own religion.

RobMac

> The latest fun bill to make its way through Congress: the Family Movie
> Act, which is being proposed to allow parents to censor out
> objectionable content in movies and programs on video.

As a non-parent I think it's a good idea. Instead of making me or the
government parent their kids, it puts the burden on them, where it
belongs.

Laura

lauracap

Modemac wrote:

> The latest fun bill to make its way through Congress: the Family Movie
> Act, which is being proposed to allow parents to censor out
> objectionable content in movies and programs on video. Of course, how
> will they be able to edit their home videos and DVDs? Only by using
> technology provided by good old "moralistic" companies who keep track
> of all the naughty, nasty, bad things being released on video these
> days. Yet again, it's time to Protect The Children through censorship!

Consider whether this thin-ended wedge may have two edges. Pre-teens
whose parents now confine them to Gumby reruns may get to brush (however
lightly) against some of the corrupting/enriching influence of the real
media-world.

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Modemac wrote:
> The latest fun bill to make its way through Congress: the Family Movie
> Act, which is being proposed to allow parents to censor out
> objectionable content in movies and programs on video. Of course, how
> will they be able to edit their home videos and DVDs? Only by using
> technology provided by good old "moralistic" companies who keep track
> of all the naughty, nasty, bad things being released on video these
> days. Yet again, it's time to Protect The Children through censorship!
>
> http://www.grassfire.org/39/petition.asp
>
You're a little late on this one. The President already signed this
bill into law back on April 27th.

Joe S.

That was a PETITION; not a bill.

The Bill is something else.

Assco

The bill "Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 (S. 167, HR
357) that affirms the right of citizens to purchase and use in the
privacy of their homes technology that allows them to skip over or mute
objectionable content in legally purchased or rented DVD movies. "

I.e. we have the RIGHT to purchase a remote control unit.

Aint freedom grand?

Assco

Assfire.org

I shouldn't have eaten those chicken wings.

Assco

Assco () wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> The bill "Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 (S. 167, HR
> 357) that affirms the right of citizens to purchase and use in the
> privacy of their homes technology that allows them to skip over or mute
> objectionable content in legally purchased or rented DVD movies. "
>
> I.e. we have the RIGHT to purchase a remote control unit.
>
> Aint freedom grand?

Actually, it is.

This bill is in response to the MPAA and big movie companies trying to
(once again) reduce our "fair use" rights.

They claimed that automated systems that eliminate "objectionable" content
from DVDs were violations of their copyright rights.

Personally, I don't have any use for such a system, but I don't see any
problem with somebody who wants to use one, and I'm not unhappy that
the MPAA lost this one.

--
Jeff Rife | "Grab a shovel...I'm only one skull
| short of a Mouseketeer reunion."
|
| -- Bender, "Futurama"

Jeff Rife

In article < .com>,
"Modemac" <> wrote:

> The latest fun bill to make its way through Congress: the Family Movie
> Act, which is being proposed to allow parents to censor out
> objectionable content in movies and programs on video. Of course, how
> will they be able to edit their home videos and DVDs? Only by using
> technology provided by good old "moralistic" companies who keep track
> of all the naughty, nasty, bad things being released on video these
> days. Yet again, it's time to Protect The Children through censorship!
>
> http://www.grassfire.org/39/petition.asp

I can only hope that some enterprising company releases a "good parts"
version of this technology, allowing people to skip _to_ the naked
boobies and sex scenes.

----j7y

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