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Notaro · 01-06-2004, 11:34 AM

Hey guys, I worte a leter to Senator John Kerry to join this anti-caption censorship campagin. Read it below and tell me what do you think.

"Dear Senator J. Kerry,
My name is Joseph Tien and I am sending you a message about captioning censorship. The president will plan to put captioning censorship bill in effects if he approves it. This bill is the violation to the First Amendment. This captioning censorship is frankly ludicrous and prejudiced because it targets the deaf communities. I am one of them. This bill proposes to eliminate the captions on an entertainment media that we enjoy watching and benefit English learning from it, and it will be allowed on educational and informative programs and we don't want that. I have the internet link from the NAD (National Association of Deaf) which provides a lot of information. Here is the link, http://www.nad.org/openhouse/action/...orship/pr.html
The captioning censorship bill will remove our usual TV shows from programs such as Disney, Law & Order: SUV, MTV, Cartoon Network, and so on. The department of Education agrees with this bill because they believe that they aren't appropriate to the deaf children and adult viewers. I find this ridiculous and discriminative. And where is our right on this? They are taking our rights to watch a media entertainment. It's just because of TV shows like X-Men: Evolution is filled with action-packed and seemed violence shouldn't deprive our rights to watch it. If a child behaves a certain way from a TV show, it's a couple of parents' responsibility to discipline and educate their children about their behavior and free speech. We can't blame entertainment media for our actions or whatsoever because we have responsibility for our actions.
And if you let the congress takes away our rights and needs for the closed captions on TV that would be, again, as I previously stated, a violation of the First Amendment, it will give out a different message about our country's philosophy and educational benefit from the captioned entertainment media. With it, the deaf children will learn how to establish dialogues with people in the real world, and the TV shows on the so-called-disapproved listings are the key to it because they offer many reality-based situations. They stimulate their minds for solving their problems and ideas. Besides learning how to establish dialogues from the captioned shows, they have the right to enjoy TV shows as hearing viewers do regularly.
Closed Captioned TV shows are being used by hearing viewers because they like to read the words, use them to improve their English, and to stimulate their writing skills in their compositions.
To sum it up, I ask you to join in this campaign against Caption Censorship Bill and to preserve our First Amendment. Deaf Americans people not only need you to help them to help the congress to overturn this bill, but also hearing Americans need you to preserve our nation’s philosophy (Liberty, Life, and Pursuit of Happiness). "

01-06-2004, 11:34 AM	#1
Notaro None iTrader: (0) Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Newton, MA Posts: 4,464	Caption Censor Ship, check my letter out Hey guys, I worte a leter to Senator John Kerry to join this anti-caption censorship campagin. Read it below and tell me what do you think. "Dear Senator J. Kerry, My name is Joseph Tien and I am sending you a message about captioning censorship. The president will plan to put captioning censorship bill in effects if he approves it. This bill is the violation to the First Amendment. This captioning censorship is frankly ludicrous and prejudiced because it targets the deaf communities. I am one of them. This bill proposes to eliminate the captions on an entertainment media that we enjoy watching and benefit English learning from it, and it will be allowed on educational and informative programs and we don't want that. I have the internet link from the NAD (National Association of Deaf) which provides a lot of information. Here is the link, http://www.nad.org/openhouse/action/...orship/pr.html The captioning censorship bill will remove our usual TV shows from programs such as Disney, Law & Order: SUV, MTV, Cartoon Network, and so on. The department of Education agrees with this bill because they believe that they aren't appropriate to the deaf children and adult viewers. I find this ridiculous and discriminative. And where is our right on this? They are taking our rights to watch a media entertainment. It's just because of TV shows like X-Men: Evolution is filled with action-packed and seemed violence shouldn't deprive our rights to watch it. If a child behaves a certain way from a TV show, it's a couple of parents' responsibility to discipline and educate their children about their behavior and free speech. We can't blame entertainment media for our actions or whatsoever because we have responsibility for our actions. And if you let the congress takes away our rights and needs for the closed captions on TV that would be, again, as I previously stated, a violation of the First Amendment, it will give out a different message about our country's philosophy and educational benefit from the captioned entertainment media. With it, the deaf children will learn how to establish dialogues with people in the real world, and the TV shows on the so-called-disapproved listings are the key to it because they offer many reality-based situations. They stimulate their minds for solving their problems and ideas. Besides learning how to establish dialogues from the captioned shows, they have the right to enjoy TV shows as hearing viewers do regularly. Closed Captioned TV shows are being used by hearing viewers because they like to read the words, use them to improve their English, and to stimulate their writing skills in their compositions. To sum it up, I ask you to join in this campaign against Caption Censorship Bill and to preserve our First Amendment. Deaf Americans people not only need you to help them to help the congress to overturn this bill, but also hearing Americans need you to preserve our nation’s philosophy (Liberty, Life, and Pursuit of Happiness). "