They can handle TV in their own homes just fine. The bottom line is, as Rep. Markey knows, there has been no outcry from parents groups, and nobody is talking to the station owners and the broadcast group owners. They re not getting any complaints about the existing system. They want to make the decisions for their own family. HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, they already rate for sex and for violence and for language.
Parents find that very helpful.
Well, with all due respect, Congressman, the HBO and Showtime, the pay cable channels, have put those labels on long before there was any interest in Congress in this matter. To me, that s unwarranted and really inappropriate government intrusion into the content. But if you read the next paragraph in the law at no time are broadcasters required to send any signal. Only if they voluntarily want to send a signal do they have to. So I think you re misreading, in fact, what the ultimate intent of the legislation was, which is to have a voluntary agreement, which is what we have today.