After two days of cable TV blackout, and the court ruling that only rated-U movies and cleared programming can be broadcasted through cable TV, we now get the DTH to ban rated-A fare! And in an interesting hypocrisy display, U/A and serials are ok! (Will they ban the internet too? *)
Now, this is why I hate cable TV in the first place. Trust Star Movies to snip out the scenes so that they can air movies in the prime time slot, and insert enough ads so that the entire movie experience is confounded.
I love the internet however, P2P is here! Unrestricted, unmoderated access! I really hope the MPAA doesn’t come knocking, but I guess they have very little to do outside of the US jurisdiction anyway. I also hope that no stupid professor files a PIL against my ISP as well, and they start restricting content like some other ISPs are already doing.
But seriously, how dumb is that? I mean, shouldn’t people be allowed to choose? It’s not like this is a poison. Or sharp edges of a metal foil, that kids need to be protected from. There’s so much violence and pornography around anyway, I don’t think it really matters what the TV broadcasts.
Oh and yes, I’m really wondering what the National Geographic Channel and the Discovery Channel and Travel and Living have to say about this. Some of their content, is well, similar in nature to otherwise rated-A programming. And what about the many news channels? Are they rated-U?
Bah!
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* = Yes, I know you cannot ban the internet per se, but look, they did it with blogspot, and China is doing it (somewhat, if so for different reasons). It’s pig-headed and all that, but it’s doable.
