The Use of the V-chip: Insightful Tool or Blatant Censorship? Recently, there has been widespread debate over the use of a new form of technology that may be coming to a television set near you in the very near future. In fact, some say this new technology, known as the V-chip (the V stands for “violence”) may finally filter out the “trash” programming that infests the average television set and reaches millions of impressionable children …showed first 75 words of 903 total…

…showed last 75 words of 903 total…risk of violence is substantially greater, but once again the V-chip would do little to combat this. If the parents are so unconcerned and uncaring, one must wonder if the V-chip will even bother to be activated (Maines, 4). The bottom line is that if parents are truly concerned with what is being broadcast into their homes, then the parents themselves should be the ones to do something—not a box you plug into your television.