CHILD'S PLAY

Here is what nobody has bothered to mention in all the talk about how V chips are going to protect our kids from the smut and violence on television: in most American households, the only people who understand how to program modern electronic devices are the children. So the V chip will presumably have to be managed by the very people it is meant to control.

You're thinking that it won't work that way. From what you've read, you understand the V chip to be so simple to use that a grownup can do it. That's what was said about VCRs....

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