With the barrage of information surrounding filtering issues in libraries in an effort to protect children from the dangers of surfing the Internet, comes a different perspective in relation to accomplishing the same level of protection in the television viewing arena. It seems that the concept of a \”Safe Harbor,\” which we now know as the Children\’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) extends to the Children\’s Protection from Violent Programming Act, (someone gimme an acronym puh-leeeeze).
The measure would require the Federal Communications Commission to \”prohibit the distribution of violent television programming,\” during times when kids are most prone to watch TV, according to Rep. Ronnie Shows (D-Miss.), the chief patron of the House bill, which he said he\’ll introduce this week.
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