Do I really have to say anything else? The disclaimer say enough, but to drive my point across, I'll repeat it in several different ways in the next few paragraphs.

First of all, I want to say that I am 100% against censorship. It totally goes against a little law called THE 1ST AMENDMENT!

And as for pressuring the movie, music, television and video game industries into producing cleaner content goes, we do need some of that. But I must say, ratings aren't there because companies put them there for fun. For each of the above mentioned, there are rating and parental advisory systems. If you need a little refreshment on what they are, write me and I'll send you a copy of them. But that really isn't necessary considering that: every single movie you've ever seen has its rating on the box, on the posters, on the ticket, next to it in your TV guide, and sometimes shows it nice and big right before the

· On Nickelodeon, there was a character on "All That" who sat in a bathtub with a rubber duck and wore a yellow rain hat. He would say things like " Do you want to squeeze my ducky" and make references to monkeys a lot. I couldn't believe this was even on Nickelodeon, much less rated TV Y.

· The review panel may not recognize "roll up a fatty" or another modern term as a drug reference.

Those are only specifics, but I have seen a few cartoons I didn't think were for the younger crowd because of the violence or situations the characters were faced with. So here's the solution to safe-guarding your kids if you think ratings don't help enough: watch the show or movie with them, listen to the music before you give it to them, and find out what a game is about before you buy it.

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