Event Title
Media Filters, the V-Chip, and the Foundations of Broadcast Regulation
Location
Duke Law School
Start Date
9-2-1996 10:45 AM
End Date
9-2-1996 12:00 PM
Description
One of the most controversial features of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is its intervention in longstanding disputes about violence and indecency in the media. Due in part to the urging of President Clinton and his Democratic allies, the new Act requires that all television sets over thirteen inches include a "V-chip," a device that would allow parents to block violent and indecent television programming. Critics charge that the V-chip raises serious First Amendment problems. This essay explores a few of them. But the author's more important goal is to use the debate over the V-chip to rethink the foundations of broadcast regulation.
Related Paper
J. M. Balkin, Media Filters, the V-Chip, and the Foundations of Broadcast Regulation, 45 Duke Law Journal 1131-1175 (1996)
Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol45/iss6/2Media Filters, the V-Chip, and the Foundations of Broadcast Regulation
Duke Law School
One of the most controversial features of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is its intervention in longstanding disputes about violence and indecency in the media. Due in part to the urging of President Clinton and his Democratic allies, the new Act requires that all television sets over thirteen inches include a "V-chip," a device that would allow parents to block violent and indecent television programming. Critics charge that the V-chip raises serious First Amendment problems. This essay explores a few of them. But the author's more important goal is to use the debate over the V-chip to rethink the foundations of broadcast regulation.
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