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  Stu Mark

  2 years ago

  This post has been nominated by our readers for Hot Stuff Of The Week! Congrats!
  
  

  
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  dataGuy

  2 years ago

  If Congress wants to "protect the children" they would regulate commercials. I can control what shows my daughters watch but there is no warning when a commercial for an inappropriate movie or other extreme content is going to be displayed. IMHO commercials are hands down the most difficult issue to handle. They way we have addressed this problem in our household was to drop the cable provider and switch to Netflix.
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  Clark

  2 years ago

  This is all politics. We can't discern what position Rep. Markey takes, is he for regulation like he acts (most likely) or does oppose it (like he pays lip service too). Either way the discussion of more regulation erodes the ability of parents to protect or influence their children.
  
  What falls under those specific caveats and who gets to decide if they are harmful or detrimental? The FCC does not know how to raise children any better than the members of congress or you and I. As you point out, parents already have plenty of choices on how to block content and they are using them. Congress should just let parents do their job, without letting politics get in their way.
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  beta mum

  2 years ago

  There are many items which it is illegal to advertise during children's television programmes in Britain.
  Personally, I find this unnecessary as I rarely let them watch stations with adverts. But the legislation is for children whose parents (maybe a higher percentage here, I don't know) who exercise little or no control over what their children watch.
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  Clark

  2 years ago

  My question still remains, how does Congress know what is appropriate and what is not? Furthermore, by censoring commercials for those parents "who exercise little or no control over what their children watch" they are censoring content that mindful parents might not have a problem with or could actually want their children to see. By parenting for some the government parents for all.
  
  Exercising little control over what children watch is not necessarily a bad thing, it could just be a different parenting philosophy. It is the government's job to punish parents who criminally neglect children, not their job to raise the kids.
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  grace

  12 months ago

  In General, it is a good idea to ban certain products and company doing commercial so that children won't see. Kids are very impressionable, they do not have the value system developed yet. However, to have the Congress to be objective as to what is suitable or not, is another debate.
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  Steve

  8 months ago

  dumb site built on a false premise
  
  no one said that thinking machines were a problem
  
  obviously whoever made this site doesnt think very well themselves
  
  perhaps should get help
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  Medela

  2 months ago

  Loved this post a lot, keep coming with such great posts, i am totally impressed.
  
  Lisa
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