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Originally Posted by DJilla
BULLETIN!
Hope you're not all getting wore out talking about this but here's something that might affect the dicussion.
I've found out that the official position of the FSC is to be against and fight ANY mandatory tagging standards.
WHY? Because mandatory tags could somewhere down the line allow the blocking of materials at the ISP level. Can you imagine a "Christian" or "Parents Network" ISP company starting up to address this perceived market need based on mandatory tagging?
Initially I was a bit skeptical of this but in the last twenty four hours I've completely changed my mind to be in agreement.
WHY? I know you've all heard on the news today that cable and phone companies are floating the idea of making Google/Yahoo et al pay for access to the subscribers. This is outrageous of course but take the possibilities to their logical conclusion and its not a pretty picture.
Things that make you go Hmmmmm!
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This is kind of old news. Many Christian groups have been pushing cable for years to offer teired programing packages that include only family style programs. I think it was MSNBC that had one of their 10 minutes chats about extending this to ISPs a couple weeks ago.
The FSC expressed interest in promoting AVS. Anyone with 1/2 a brain can easily understand that AVS is not possible until all governments issue some type ID that's computer readable. Law forms with ties to free speech are trying to patent AVS technologies that won't work but they're telling congress they will.
If all content has to be labeled then I'm fine with it. Parents want to signup with a Christian ISP that blocks all adult content then I'm OK with that. If they don't want want adult material in their homes then I don't really want them on my sites any way. It will cut down on free loaders and not have a huge impact on sales.
60% of my sales come from over seas and that won't be effected at all.
States and cities won't be allowed to block all adult content as it is an infringment on Free Speech. If parent or school wishes to do that then that's their choice and I want to help them. They're not buying any way.