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In article <4jfcf5$m6o@gold.interlog.com>,
eye WEEKLY <eye@interlog.com> wrote:
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>  V-CHIPS AND DIPS
>  by PIERRE SAVOIE
>
>The V-chip just makes me laugh. ...
>
>But what about commercials? Has no one thought that the possibility of 
>locking out commercials, ...
> ...
>Let private enterprise design and market the "C-chip", ...

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Dear Eye,

I was delighted to read that Pierre Savoie liked my "C-Chip" idea so much
he took the time to "Rant" about it in EYE last week.  My proposal for
a chip that detects and blacks out annoying and unwanted TV commercials
was widely discussed last October [1], when Keith Spicer was in the middle
of his "show trials" to convince us the V-chip was good for us, despite
the lack of evidence that make-believe depictions of violence are the cause
of real-life violence.

Perhaps Pierre will also like my more recent idea of a V-Chip "inverter". [2]
It will be trivial to develop a circuit to invert the V-chip rating signals
in order to enable interested viewers to *maximize*, rather minimize,
their exposure to sex and violence on TV.

... or perhaps Pierre will prefer my satirical V-barcode news release
that describes an adaptation of the V-chip rating system for books. [3]
EYE readers can read about the V-barcode plan (and lots more) by visiting
Electronic Frontier Canada's award-winning EYEsite:  http://www.efc.ca

Ciao,
  David Jones, djones@efc.ca

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[1] (21oct95) efc-talk, djones
    A modest proposal:  the "C-chip"

 gopher://insight.mcmaster.ca/0R85898-88445-/org/efc/doc/efc-talk/efc-talk.9510


[2] (17mar96) Halifax Daily News, Parker Donham
    The V-Chip: Keith Spicer's weasel words are intentionally deceptive

 gopher://insight.mcmaster.ca/00/org/efc/media/daily-news.17mar96


[3] (20mar96) efc-talk, djones
    V-chip rating system extended to books / CLA endorses 'V-barcode' plan

 http://www.efc.ca/pages/pr/V-barcode.html