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Gold/Mining/Energy : Tri-Vision & The V-Chip -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Louie Romano who wrote (3142)	6/16/1998 11:57:00 PM
From: BlueIce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5743

On a technical note, is there a future for V-chip technology to move into radio and music? Radios, walkmans (or walkpersons to be politically correct), stereos and so on. I was watching a special report on the news about the influence of music - especially explicit lyrics - on today's youths and how it leads them to violent and sex crimes, and suicide. Some gangster rap focuses on the use of guns, violence and suicide in their lyrics. Song and album titles over the past decade have become more explicit like "The Land of Rape and Honey", "Rape Me", "Shut Up And Sleep With Me", "Definition of a Thug Nigga", and "We Want Some Pussy". These are actual titles from popular music artists. The music industry responded by putting labels like "Explicit Lyrics" on the music products, but that has had a reverse effect. The label acts like a forbidden fruit that youths cannot resist. It seems to me that putting a V-chip in music playing devices to blank out excessively rated music from playing can play a complementary role to blanking television programs. The bottom line is would you want your child listening to explicitly rated music anymore than watching an explicitly rated television show?