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Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors

unlametheweak recommends an Ars Technica report that the US Senate has unanimously passed a bill requiring the FCC to explore what "advanced blocking technologies" are available to parents to help filter out "indecent or objectionable programming." "...the law does focus on empowering parents to take control of new media technologies to deal with undesired content, rather than handing the job over to the government. It asks the FCC to focus the inquiry on blocking systems for a 'wide variety of distribution platforms,' including wireless and Internet, and an array of devices, including DVD players, set top boxes, and wireless applications."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/06/0237238&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/06/0237238"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/06/0237238&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/CzdRpS576Hnu4qvTB6oVWOA4tpI/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/CzdRpS576Hnu4qvTB6oVWOA4tpI/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/A1ZvUwIBbfw" height="1" width="1"/>