10 Facts About V-chip

V-chip is a technology used in television set receivers in Canada, Brazil and the United States, that allows the blocking of programs based on their ratings category.

V-chip has a four-digit numerical password in order to keep older children from changing its settings.

Phrase "V-chip" was purportedly coined by then-Representative Ed Markey of Massachusetts.

V-chip did not expect it would become a national standard for all televisions.

V-chip gained popularity when it was revealed at a Technology Exposition at the G7 meetings in Brussels in 1995.

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One of the driving forces of the development of the V-chip was the signing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by President Bill Clinton.

V-chip was an added provision in Bill Clinton's Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Tim Collings states he developed the V-chip technology while he was an engineering professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia; however, he did not obtain a patent on the technology.

Balkin says some people believe that the use of the V-chip is a way for the government to "intervene and impose binding moral standards" on others.

V-chip has provided parents and guardians the ability to monitor and block television shows that are unfavorable for children to watch in specific households by reading the information that is encoded in the rated program and blocking it based upon that rating it has been given.