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- From: 4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca (John LaRocque)
- Subject: Re: Virginie's TV violence petition
- Organization: University of Western Ont, London
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:22:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.174736.2104@mdivax1.uucp>, robinson@mdivax1.uucp (Jim Robinson) writes:
-
- (Denis writes)
- >>I think the point (and you missed it), violence on TV is present enough
- >>to show to children that violence is "natural", like the sky is blue
- >>or the sun is hot or people are (usually married).
-
- > I would agree with Denis, and I don't see a problem with restricting
- > violent TV shows to certain hours (e.g. after 10pm). I consider it quite
- > ludicrous that nudity on TV is a no-no, while murder is A-OK.
-
- You're right. If City TV Toronto can show a little sex after midnight, then
- what is wrong if someone shows Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch or Kurosawa's
- Ran in prime time. I prefer content labels than the repressive censorship
- that this petition advocates.
-
- > On the other hand, when direct broadcast satellite comes into its own,
- > doesn't all this become moot as there would be no way to regulate what the
- > public watches?
-
- Isn't that the point. No-one is stopping us from talking on the computer.
- Someday the state will want to regulate all of us (just as they are trying
- to take away alt.sex.* on Usenet news), but the technologie will make all
- this censorship obselete. Like I said... warning labels.
-
- > Here I am not so sure. Cartoons are almost by definition fantasy. Surely
- > even children realize this. After all, how many talking, upright walking, 6
- > foot bunnies have they run into other than on TV.
- > --
- > Jim Robinson
- > robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com
- > {ubc-cs!van-bc,uunet}!mdivax1!robinson
-
- Excellent. When I was I kid I believed in le Pere Noel. That didn't hurt me
- either. An excellent movie to rent out is Harvey, with Jimmy Stewart (now
- there you WILL believe that there is a walking talking 6 foot tall bunny)
-
- --
-
- John P. LaRocque
- vader@uwo.ca
- University of Western Ontario
- London, Ontario
-
-
- "Urk..urk..."
- "Apologies accepted, Captian Nida", Darth Vader
-