On August 2, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee approved, by voice vote, the Child Safe Viewing Act (S. 602).
Sponsored by Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR), the bill would require the Federal Communications Commission to examine and report to Congress on blocking technologies that could be used by parents to protect their children from “indecent or objectionable video or audio programming.” The blocking technology would be designed to work with televisions, VCRs, DVD players, cable, satellite receivers, wireless devices, and closed captioning language.
