US town cuts off access to cable tv because citizens may watch porn

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?You can?t watch porn in South Holland, Illinois??
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censorship ftl

In September, Comcast Cable issued a press release noting the ?tremendous growth? of On Demand, the company?s signature video-on-demand service, which the company claims has surpassed ?three billion program views since 2004.?

Apparently, none of those views have come from South Holland, IL, where a clause in a franchise contract that Comcast inherited from the area?s previous service provider (AT&T Broadband) prevents the company from delivering On Demand to its customers in the tiny suburb of Chicago.

According to NBC5.com, the website for Chicago NBC affiliate station WMAQ, South Holland resident Lisa Kozlowski was told the reason Comcast?s On Demand signal is blocked in the village is to prevent citizens from watching adult content available through the service.
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yay for adults have the choice to decide what's best for them ..what's even more ironic is the fact that the majority of programs on On Demand arent porn but regular tv content

Interviewed by WMAQ, Comcast noted that all households that receive the On Demand service can control what channels and content are available through built-in parental controls.
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I dont have On demand but wouldnt most of the porn on cable tv be softcore?


http://www.ynot.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=news_article&sid=20392
 
we stayed at a hotel once. I had the great idea to turn the TV on. they were showing porn. luckily for me, my parents didn't notice.
 
Only retards get their porn needs from TV!
 
doesnt comcast also sell the internets? I'm surprised they havent banned PCs for being tools of the devil
 
It doesn't say that comcast is intentionally doing it. It inherited the clause in the contract. So why rag on comcast? No matter how much they must suck, they're not the first cause of this.
 
This violation of freedom of choice was sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ's Church of Latter Day Saints.
 
I think the last time I used the TV to watch porn I was about 10. Thank god I found the internet, because that staticy, jumbled crap just wasn;t doing it for me.
 
Raziaar said:
It doesn't say that comcast is intentionally doing it. It inherited the clause in the contract. So why rag on comcast? No matter how much they must suck, they're not the first cause of this.
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who says Comcast is to blame?

...South Holland, IL, where a clause in a franchise contract that Comcast inherited from the area?s previous service provider..

....Comcast's On Demand signal is blocked in the village....
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Wow. Just, wow. What are they going to do next? Block me from imagining pornography?
 
Now your going to see a surge of sex crimes in that town
 
I think it's really gay but it's nothing to do with government meddling or stripping of rights-

"where a clause in a franchise contract"

where a clause in a franchise contract
 
RakuraiTenjin said:
I think it's really gay but it's nothing to do with government meddling or stripping of rights-

"where a clause in a franchise contract"

where a clause in a franchise contract
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the clause was put there by whomever negotiated the contract ..most likely city council

from the contract:

?Franchisee shall not allow or make available for viewing any film rated ?X?? or any channel which is primarily devoted to films that are obscene under community standards.?
 
Some books contain sex scenes.

I say we burn down the library.
Who's with me???
 
i wouldnt care since i have antenna for my tv. gotta love those bunny ears.
 
Anyone who uses Comcast in the first place doesn't deserve softcore-can't-see-anything-good-anyway porn.
 
CptStern said:
what's even more ironic is the fact that the majority of programs on On Demand arent porn but regular tv content
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Perhaps, but it'll be TAINTED by porn being on the same network. Passive pornography is just as watching pornography normally.
 
el Chi said:
Perhaps, but it'll be TAINTED by porn being on the same network. Passive pornography is just as watching pornography normally.
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I thought passive pornography referred to those times when you wanted to look at nekkid peeples but didnt have time to ...finish the job :cheese:
 
Anyone smell that? That's the smell of the first ammendment being torched. Horay 'morals'!
 
"omg that send images of people fornicating, can someone think of the children"
"mom I got 32 years old I can watch whatever I want dammit"
"shut up and obey jesus!"

thats stupid
 
the bible has probably one of the dirtiest porn scenes in all classic literature! :cheese:
 
"And Jesus boned the dirty prostitute good.

And behold, she was cured of her syphillis"
 
kirovman said:
"And Jesus boned the dirty prostitute good.

And behold, she was cured of her syphillis"
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Wait, Jesus took away people's pain in some story, in other words, he cured them. Does that mean that... Ewww! Jesus got an STD!
The ironic thing is that Fred Phelps is probably sitting somewhere reading the paper -- If that's allowed -- sulking when reading this.
 
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