I very much like the "Cliff Notes" correlation that folks are making. Me, I never bought Cliff Notes, but I saw it's purpose...as well as its potential for abuse by my lazier classmates.
In my mind, I see what ClearPlay is doing as being related to all the software that's out there that filters what websites can be accessed on a given computer. With the way legislature is going, if parents don't have these options (OK so I question them letting their kids watch certain movies in the first place) those parents might start pressuring lawmakers to start sanitizing everything before we see it. Already happening to some extent (remember the flak a few months ago with Saving Private Ryan airing on network TV?) And that's a much slipperier slope, IMHO.
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Date: 2005-04-29 05:38 pm (UTC)In my mind, I see what ClearPlay is doing as being related to all the software that's out there that filters what websites can be accessed on a given computer. With the way legislature is going, if parents don't have these options (OK so I question them letting their kids watch certain movies in the first place) those parents might start pressuring lawmakers to start sanitizing everything before we see it. Already happening to some extent (remember the flak a few months ago with Saving Private Ryan airing on network TV?) And that's a much slipperier slope, IMHO.