Bluemerle

I make no apology for asking you to sign the following petition aimed at reducing violence on TV. Feel free to pass it on at church or wherever. The aim is for one million signatures by January 8th 2008.


Petition to: initiate urgent action to require the Office of Communication (Ofcom), using its regulatory powers, to substantially reduce the portrayal of fictional violence and the use of obscene language on television.


Peter Worsley
Assistant Editor, This England & Evergreen magazines

Westcountryman

No, I won't be signing this.

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Kevin Adamson

No nor me , does your tv have an off button?

PCMadness

Care to share your reasoning?

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PCMadness

Yes it does. But it would be off most of the day if you are suggesting that it should be switched off when there is anything unsuitable for younger viewers.

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Westcountryman

Your username is PCmadness, but you'd support this censorship? If you don't like what's on TV, don't watch it.

I don't believe there's a causal link between violence on TV or in games (I play GTA, and have no urge to start a crime ring).

I also don't like Ofcom, especially since they won't advocate upgrading Britain's broadband network.

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Smidgey

I will not sign it either.

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PCMadness

Whatever happened to the 9 o'clock watershed???

I think the gratuitous violence, sex, and bad language shown these days is appalling, not to mention the video games and music videos that are virtually soft porn, all in the name of "entertainment".

Look at this, I sound like an old codger and I'm only in my mid thirties.

What are we all being groomed for??? It seems to me to be an exercise in desensitising us to things that should be morally objectionable (or certainly were when I was growing up).

For people who say that this is the real world and what is shown is what really happens, so what? Our kids enter the real world soon enough and find their way fine. They do not need this **** shoved down their throat every time the TV is turned on.

I should not have to explain to a 4 year old about sex because they saw something on TV at 6pm that leads to awkward questions or to explain that killing someone is bad when they've seen someone being brutally murdered on the bill that seem to be on a continous loop 24/7.

The morality of this society we have created in the last 40 years is highly questionable.

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Westcountryman

If they don't like it they can turn it off, I know I do. As for younger viewers, parents should be regulating what they watch, not the government.

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C_steam

completely agree. I pondered this one some time ago, 'cos essentially I don't like the idea of censorship. so i've decided that i want a scenario where there is no censorship, since the environment around is morally ok. At present, much of the content being thrown at people is morally reprehensible (and yes, I know that's a value judgement) so something has to be done.

Again, back to my pet topic, the unconscious mind. It cannot sort out fact from fiction, your conscious mind does that bUT the conscious mind can't do that job for all of the input it gets. So if you see, hear or worse, act out in video games, violence and mayhem, then the unconscious mind builds pathways where such behaviour is acceptable - a learned behaviour, in fact.

we teach people by getting them to watch, listen, enact, write, and so on. If that is our method for teaching, why would you feel that the same processes being used whilst watching and playing violent games will not teach that violence is acceptable?

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