On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 12:42 -0700, Jason Barnett wrote: > I think this <http://home.disney.go.com/tv/>is what you are looking for.
Thank you for the recommendation. I would like to be able to watch shows from on air channels though as well. OPB comes to mind. Most of the time PG-13 material will be fairly okay. It's the level of sexually explicit material I object to in some of hulu's media choices. Sabrina for example is a nice movie that involves romance, and it doesn't particularly bother me. I'm not looking for everything G, I just don't believe a site should make more than a certain level of sexual material easy to access. I'll get tired of Disney pretty fast. I like a good science fiction, it's just the level of sexually explicit material in Stargate Universe that I object to. This material makes the show addictive as opposed to making it enjoyable. The series Enterprise failed because of sexual material. I wish the writers for these series would figure out that sexual material can ruin a show. Finding quality entertainment is becoming difficult. I for one am interested in technological advances where interactive television involving say fuel cell technology would intrigue me. The problems with interactive television are numerous though. I'm not opposed to a site that offers a diverse selection of media, I just want material on the higher end of the sexual spectrum to be more restricted and harder to find. My second concern is privacy, I don't want to look bad to a boss or get bombarded by UCE spam. Adults don't want to watch kids tv necessarily, but getting a steady diet of hard core material (relatively speaking) isn't good. Being turned on by a spouse is superior to being turned on by a show IMO, but I'm single meaning that that isn't available for me. Disciplining oneself to leave certain media alone in this information age seems harder than the challenges faced by people before the Internet. I see this as a reality that needs to be addressed at some point. Standards established for decency on broadcast television are antiquated in an era of Internet television, satellite, and widespread cable use. Tools like OpenDNS can help, if you can't bypass them. OpenDNS doesn't help with hulu though and sites like it. I'd recommend openDNS and Linux to a business owner perhaps, but it's not enough. Scanning images for sexual content isn't practical, so what is the answer? I think the answer involves discipline, but how does one discipline him/herself in this information age? I think this is a question for sociologists and psychiatrists. Linux is very powerful for use as a filter, but filtering media seems to be an intractable problem from a technical standpoint. Where community opinions concerning people going to certain establishments historically might have helped, nobody sees what you do in private online necessarily. Portland I understand is especially bad when it comes to production of "Adult" material and the number of "Adult" establishments. There is a statistic that half of all teenagers view sexually explicit material frequently. I don't see those habits going away automatically in adulthood. I guess either a Opendns should have a way of blocking hulu access or b one must resort to a local domain blacklist. Blocking hulu is an extreme answer, after all, some hulu shows aren't sexual at all. I wish ISPs would step up and offer to help their customers solve the problem of how do you block sexually explicit material and learn to discpline yourself adequately? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
