Posts Tagged with ‘internet-safety’

The New V-Chip Bill Has Web In Its Crosshairs

Paul Glazowski

Are you familiar with the V-Chip? It’s a piece of technology embedded into television sets sold in the US for a number of years that allows authoritative wacks parents, guardians, or elders the luxury of controlling what the “underage” can view without said parents, guardians, or elders having to actually supervise said “underage”. Snazzy, eh?
Well, the proponents of this asinine invention (I’m all for proper programming, but as the American television rating system is no doubt ridiculous, I am thus [...]