Upon the date 09:11 PM 2/11/00 +0001, Hans Franke said something like:
>> On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 06:35:26PM -0000, Eric Smith wrote:
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>> and couldn't watch on TV so there was no need for V chips (I can't believe
>> they're making us pay for censorship devices now just because some absentee
>> parent religious freaks got upset),
>
>Please, what are V-Chips - I always associate the NEC CPU series with that.
Hoo boy, you'd have to ask . . . :-) That is a hot button among some
folks over here.
Anybody more articulate than me explain to the non-US folks this device
used to censor certain TV programming from children?
-Chris
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Received on Fri Feb 11 2000 - 15:45:54 GMT