We don’t need more policing by limiting RedBox’s offerings. Was my response off-base? Do you have anymore thoughts on this issue? I simply do not need – or want – you or anyone else doing that for me. Let us take responsibility for our own families and our own actions. With regards to your “pointâ€, I simply do not think we need the government or any other silly “interest groups†adding more censorship and more regulations to our already over-regulated society. Ted Engen? Maybe you should disclose this if you are going to come and make an argument on someone else’s website. Perhaps that stems from you being related to Mr. Really though, Jon, it seems to me that you are the one with the one-sided argument. Personally, I do not watch R-rated movies at all, and I plan to teach my children to do the same. Listen, I think it is important to protect our children from things that we don’t find inappropriate, but that is my job as a parent, not someone else’s job to force their silly ideas on me or family.īTW, this site does not “promote†Redbox, it is “about†Redbox. €œThis is not a competition issue,†said VBG president Ted Engen, who also runs the 71-store Total Entertainment Center article specifically said that he runs 71 video stores? You don’t think that is a conflict of interest? One last thing is checkcards work in these machines as well and last I checked how old do you have to be to have a checking account 12? Mcdonalds does market to children with thier happy meals and playlands so why is there box art promoting riske material on it right in the front foyers of the McDonalds? Another thing is alls a child has to do to rent an inappropriate title is press one button that says I am 18yrs old, How hard is that for a child? There is not that extra layer of protection of a human being actually making sure of the age. Go figure that you’d get a one-sided arguement on a site that promotes Red-box. Alls that did was made me buy 2 packs in case I couldn’t get back. If you all remember cigarette machines when we were all kids they to had stickers on them saying you had to be 18 to buy, did that stop any of us? NO!!!. They ask age, ask for id’s and they don’t rent inappropriate material to children. Thirdly video store owners have an extra layer of protection for parents by enforcing the MPAA’s volentary ratings system, they are in ways custodians of the content for children. Secondly any child can get a visa/matercard gift card given to them and use it in a redbox. You can read more about it at selfserviceworld.Īnyway, here is the comment made by Jon, as well as my response…įirst of all the guy who is bringing up this issue does not own a video store he runs a buying group for independents not some corporate machine. There has actually been further action regarding this issue recently from other government bodies in the midwest that I had been meaning to post about, but never got around to it. I found it interesting enough to warrant its own post, and possibly warranting further discussion.
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