From: newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe) Newsgroups: alt.censorship,can.general,rec.arts.tv,comp.org.eff.talk,can.infohighway,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk Subject: Re: Canada censors children's show Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 14:47:24 UNDEFINED Organization: Clayton State College Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <398aa9$h7f@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <398mid$c5o@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <1994Nov4.150015.6983@cs.rit.edu> In article <1994Nov4.150015.6983@cs.rit.edu> jld2705@cs.rit.edu (James L D'Angelo) writes: > You people are forgetting something, all TV come with a device that > allows for a simple form of censorship. An off button. > I see this as a case where the goverenment is having to play > parent. I believe that the George Carlin routine on the FCC and it's 7 dirty words went something like: " So some minister in Mississippi decided he didn't like what was on the radio, so he wrote to the president, and the FCC stepped in and set up standards of what could and could not be said. To the minister, there is another option. The two knobs on the front of the radio. On changes the channel, and the other turns it off. But I guess as a minister, he'd have trouble with anything with two knobs." -Dan, wondering if CMU is now gonna ban this post :) -- Dan Newcombe newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "And the man in the mirror has sad eyes." -Marillion