The Wichita Eagle’s Alan Bjerga informs about a bill currently making its rounds through Washington’s lawmakers that would significantly increase single station indecency fines - by ten times. Bjerga writes that the bill, sponsored by Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, is “poised to become law” and is just one of multiple efforts currently being raised in order to combat indecency on television broadcasts. But the most interesting thing I found was another technological advance that goes beyond the “V-Chip” - but could have bigger implications.
Companies are working on technology that would code scenes from programs for content. If a parent programmed a television to delete certain content, the screen would go blank during that scene.
I would question whether this is any better than the “V-Chip” technology currently being underutilized by parents - if that is too much of a hassle to use, then why would a parent start using something that chopped up programming?
