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4 年 ago
Makes me want to try to make the project, just to see how many brains I can fry with from contradictions.
4 年 ago
. 1) The Cable/Satellite companies should allow people to purchase individual channels. -- I have just heard that there is a feeling that some people don't want to pay for some channels in a group and feel that this requires them to either forgo any channel or all of them. So if the Cable companies want to reduce the pressure to control their content, they may want to implement single channel pricing.
. 2) Each program/commercial... must be rated, with V-Chip ratings so that a user can filter out the programs that are above their ratings or unrated, (assumed to be of "highest" rating X)
. 3) The FCC MUST!!! publish clear standards for establishing these V-Chip suitable ratings far in advance enough so that if a program rates itself according to the published standards it is protected against prosecution.
This would, I think, allow any user to determine what control he wishes to apply to his viewing without controlling the viewing of others and without chilling any content provider. With the V-Chip we do have the technology for user control of the content that they receive and so no longer should there be any reason for one user to control the content that is available to others.