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Fire Donating Member (122 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 01:03 AM
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Anti-Freespeech proposal, Hilary just lost my primary vote
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Clinton assails "epidemic'' of media sex and violence
By DEVLIN BARRETT
Associated Press Writer

March 9, 2005, 12:57 PM EST

WASHINGTON -- Children are suffering from a "silent epidemic" of media sex and violence, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton argued Wednesday in calling for closer scrutiny by parents and government of what kids watch and play.
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Speaking a day before her husband former president Bill Clinton was due to undergo a follow-up surgery for a heart bypass operation six months ago, the senator argued the public health was threatened by increasingly raw media content. Clinton, D-N.Y., focused her critique on the new media that some parents worry are a bad influence on children: violent video games, the Internet, and sexually explicit television programs.
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Found this on another forum

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--clinton-mediaviol0309mar09,0,1268343.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

I find it so frustrating that a people I respect otherwise would be so pro-censorship.
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