Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.
Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.
Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.
Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.
Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.
There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.
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