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V-Chip Defined
A licensed proprietary system built into a TV set to restrict viewing of programs such as for control a parent may wish to exercise over his children. Programs as broadcast contain encoded audience rating information that the V-Chip technology recognizes and may cause a program to be blacked out.
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A split-second decision
Published July 21, 2008, 9:21 pm, USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News
Janet Jackson's notorious "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show was unquestionably a tasteless stunt, particularly in an event watched by 90 million viewers, many of them children. Viewers complained loudly and immediately. The NFL and TV networks got the message. The republic survived.
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Thu Mar 27
- Will Kids Pay the Price for Recall Failures? | Benton Foundation: DTV's are basically computers with really big monitors, right? Then why are the being sold without the ability to be patched automatically? What's worse, thousands of them are being sold in violation of FCC rules for V-Chip 2.0 upgrade ability, which
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- "Children's Media Policy Coalition" on the V-Chip: Children Now, the American Psychological Association, Action Coalition for Media Education, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Benton Foundation, the National Institute on Media and the Family, the National PTA and the Offi
Wed Jun 13
- NewsForge | A parent's guide to Linux Web filtering: A parent's guide to Linux Web filtering
Thu Feb 15
- Report urges FCC to limit TV violence - Yahoo! News: FCC has issued a new draft (not yet circulating) that suggests violent content should be regulated like obscene content, with a child-sensitiv e time restriction. In addition, the FCC recommends a la carte programming as a way to provide family-friendl y te
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- The second coming of the V-Chip - page 2 | Tech News on ZDNet: possible opportunity for community based rating distributed in v-chip readable standard?
Sun Jan 8
- DansGuardian - True Web Content Filtering for All: DansGuardian is an award winning Open Source web content filter which currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris. It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering a
- Privoxy - Home Page: Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configu
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