The V-Chip Checkpoint The V-Chip had quite an impact on television since it has been introduced. The whole point of the V-Chip was to regulate what children watch on television by making a rating system so the parent has all the power to choose what their kids will watch on television. If for some reason there is a television show that is being questioned by a parent‚ that parent can contact the local station the show plays on to file a complaint in hopes they re-rate the rating that show
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"The government should continue regulations and keep control over net neutrality. Net Neutrality greatly benefits the people of the internet.The current regulations allow people to be free online. They are able to express their opinions and feelings with a free‚ uncensored internet. With net neutrality‚ Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are not allowed to censor and control what people see on the internet‚ meaning that manipulation and bias is not possible on the internet. This also means that they
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Net neutrality is the principle of ensuring all Internet accesses are treated equally. Whether users are checking Facebook‚ posting photos on Instagram‚ shopping on Amazon‚ watching movies on Netflix or videos on YouTube‚ viewing all travel information through the Internet are treated equally. So that means that the Internet service provider (ISP)‚ such as Comcast‚ AT&T or Verizon cannot block or slow down access. Of the user into the content. Most of the debates about how to make net neutrality
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to deal with our rights to privacy. “In 1991‚ Congress passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)‚ the first federal law regulating the actions of legitimate telemarketers. Its purpose is to strike a balance between protecting the rights of consumers and allowing businesses to use telemarketing effectively. Regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)‚ this law requires telemarketers to formalize their existing policies and‚ where necessary‚ create new ones to bring
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Bandwidth The transmission capacity of a communication medium. Carrier Wave In situations where a radio wave is being modified for the purposes of providing information on the wave‚ the “carrier wave” is the baseline‚ unmodified wave against which the modified waves are to be compared. Digital A signal consisting of binary code ( a stream of ones and zeroes) to represent voice‚ video or data. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) The federal agency in charge of telecommunications regulation
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Act (CIPA) stands as a federal law that was passed and approved by Congress that helps to protect any civil matters that may be probed about offensive content that happens each day in schools‚ libraries‚ television‚ and most importantly over the internet. With this‚ the children’s internet Act (CIPA) has a particular set of requirements with in the schools or libraries which receives charges money for having access to the Internet. In 2001‚ the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) provided guidelines
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Act of 1991 was passed and enacted by Congress‚ in response to consumer concerns about the growing number of unsolicited telephone calls by telemarketers and the increasing use of automated and prerecorded messages. In response‚ the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted rules that require anyone making telephone solicitation calls to your home must provide their names‚ and the name of the person or company on whose behalf the call was being made. The rules also prohibited telephone solicitation
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Assignment 2 The mission statement of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is “To prevent business practices that are anticompetitive or deceptive or unfair to consumers; to enhance informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process; and to accomplish this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity” (About the FTC‚ n.d). The primary areas that FTC is responsible is making sure that the consumer is protected from unfair business practices to prevention of getting
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two features of BCRA are the restriction of soft money and issue advocacy. First‚ this act bans the raising of soft money by federal candidates or national parties and restricts the spending of soft money by state parties. Second‚ this act created a new election law‚ electioneering communication‚ which prohibits the use of political advertisements that “refers” to a federal candidate within thirty days of a primary election or sixty days of a general elections. The First Amendment is arguably the
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Resolved: On balance‚ the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission harms the election process. My partner and I stand in firm negation of today’s resolution. If my partner and I uphold that the Citizens United decision does not directly harm our election process‚ then we win today’s round. Contention 1: Citizens United has negligible effect on public participation in elections. In fact‚ the decision actually supports voter turnout. Many would argue that a bombardment
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