If the proposed bill becomes law, a government-appointed board will review all television programming and have the right to censor shows the board believes are too violent. This is a bad idea.It is true that there is a lot of violence on television. Studies show that children are likely to see thousands of violent acts on television by the time they are adults. But we do not really know what effect seeing violence on television has on children. No one has been able to prove that watching violence on television makes kids commit crimes. Censoring television would be restricting the right to free speech. This is not the way to solve our crime problem. There are plenty of direct causes of crime in our society, and we would be better off tackling them.The author of the editorial does not like the proposed bill because it
