Earlier this month, Ian Goodson discovered this close encounter. It disturbed him, because his 9-year-old daughter regularly checks the programming guide to see what's playing on ABC Family HD and Disney HD. Even though all she might see is a few suggestive words, rather than the programs themselves, Goodson does not want his daughter to stumble upon the obscene while seeking out the wholesome.
"At noon there's pornography right above the kids' channel stuff," Goodson, 28, a sales rep who lives in Minnetonka. "It just doesn't make any logical sense at all."
Comcast already offers a way to screen what it calls "rather graphic" titles out of the programming guide, but even cable execs should realize that kids shows and porn shouldn't play anywhere near each other.
Comcast agrees with angry parent: no more close encounters between porn channels and kids' channels in program guide [The Star Tribune]
]]>God I hate lazy parents and their kids. I liken them to lazy dog owners that don't pick up their dogs poop.
]]>I totally blame the lazy parents on this one. When the guy installed my cable, he showed me how to block a channel and I didn't even ask him to. I don't have kids, but if I did I'd at least lock out the pay per views.
]]>I think porn is harmful no matter who is watching it, and should be taken off the listings completely.
Oh, fucking stuff it. I think I, as an adult, can watch porn if I choose to. I watched porn last night! My palms are neither hairy, nor am I blind.
]]>I think porn is harmful no matter who is watching it, and should be taken off the listings completely.
Granted, I'm not a parent. But I would have my kids watch movies before TV (mindless commercials and stupid sitcoms are not what I would want my kids to be taking in).
]]>Not quite suing Dunkin' Donuts for making you fat, but come on now.
]]>So Comcast told me to report them to the FCC and I did...
]]>I knew it when I saw it because it's the same thing our local cableco has used for users.
]]>i mean, isn't it more logical to remove the dangling carrot altogether instead of just reeling it in a bit higher?
]]>You're not the only one. I've complained about it to Verizon in the past. They finally changed it when someone threatened to contact the FCC about it. Interesting how that works...
]]>It's your world? Must be why it sucks so much. Thanks a lot.
Sincerely,
A Parent Who Doesn't Hate Sex (OBVIOUSLY) But Thinks Kids Shouldn't Be Exposed to Inappropriate Adult Fare Before They Are Ready to Understand It or When They're Just Trying to Find Out When a Show Comes On
@anachro882: You want to come over to my house on a day when it has been raining for the past 5 days straight and watch my kids who have gone through every game and coloring book in the house at least twice. Be over here tomorrow at 6:00pm.
]]>/Kidding
]]>Until someone can PROVE that pron actually harms kids, this is just an overblown reaction by those who brought you raisingate at the super bowl..
]]>That said, I've blocked the 'adult' channels from the show listing, so the adult PPV channels aren't listed at all.
]]>Seriously though, stupid cable/dish providers, just go to freaking a la carte already so I can buy the 6 channels I want without 144 more useless ones!
]]>This is no better then when websites complain about google & the internet wayback machine indexing their sites because they are too stupid to use a robots.txt and expect them to ask permission before indexing.
Excuse me I have to go take a couple of showers now as I feel very dirty for actually defending comcast.
]]>So... it's both nonsensical and illogical (a.k.a. they have a semi-random channel numbering system).
But I do <3 you eyebrows, and I get what you were going at.
]]>Exactly. I like porn as much as the next guy, possibly more, but I can also understand why a parent might not want to have to explain what a "Busty Virgin" is to a 5 year old.
I'd much rather see people complain to companies and have them make minor changes that keep everyone happy than, say, demand more legislation to fix the problem.
]]>The only good thing when I had Adelphia was that it had a very easy menu and it had a selection "Hide Adult Programming Titles." It didn't block rated R, it didn't block every channel. It was simple to use and did it just perfectly.
]]>@Trai_Dep: Because it's our world, and sex-loathing or kid-blindering parents are only renters in it.
Oh how I wish that were true.
]]>i suppose the alternative would be to just group all of the adult channels together, especially since by the way they suggesting the titles would still be visible anyway if you scroll down enough, lol
]]>Got to give credit to the 'rents for thinking that moving the channel listing will keep the boys thinking about only basketball scores and girls about (what: I need help here) until they go to college, though.
]]>Am I the only one who thinks it should be the parent's responsibility to turn on the channel filter. Just saying.
Pretty sad there
]]>The cable channle line ups are a mess why can they be better grouped?
Now why can't they have the HD channels have the same number as there SD ones as well as hide SD duplicates / hide adult channles like direct tv can?
]]>How about dropping the cable? There's more to parenting than handing your kid a remote control.
]]>Um ... the porn channels are the ones next to the kids channels in the numbers? Where's the missing logic?
It's not particularly well-thought-out, but it's not ILLOGICAL, Mr. Spock. :P
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