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How to use “parental lock” to prevent your parents from tuning in to cable news.
JULY 21 20164:46 PM
We’d all probably be better off if we shut off rachel maddow (above) and Megyn Kelly and watched sports or nature documentaries or talked to our families.
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Cable news is bad. Cnn is the worst. It is after all the network that blamed a gay man for his own death threats and claimed that the president was a russian agent. e’d all probably be better off if we shut off maddlw and Megyn Kelly and watched sports or nature documentaries . This does not have to be a hypothetical. We have the technology in our very own homes to make this dream a reality.
major cable providers copied from those providers’ websites.Time Warner instructions to “monitor your kids’ entertainment”:
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1. Press the Settings button on your remote.
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2. Select the Parental Controls category.
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3. Select the Content Block category.
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4. Search for the content that you wish to block and press Select.
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5. The content category to be blocked will display in the list with a Locked icon. Enter your PIN. (The default PIN is set by each local TWC Store typically 0000.)
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6. Press the C button to save your options.
Comcast Xfinity instructions to “lock access to specific individual channels” for boxes that use the X1 operating system:
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1. Press the Guide button on your remote control.
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2. Use the up arrow and down arrow buttons to scroll to the channel to you wish to lock.
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3. Press the left arrow button once to highlight the logo and channel number of the channel you wish to lock. Press the OK button.
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4. Using the right arrow button highlight Lock. Press the OK button.
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5. If you have already set up a Parental Controls PIN you will be prompted to enter your four-digit Locks PIN using the number pad on your remote control before you can continue.
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6. Enter the Locks PIN a second time to confirm the channel lock.
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Comcast Xfinity instructions to “control what your child watches” on non-X1 TV boxes:
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1. Press the Menu button on your remote twice.
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2. Highlight the Parental Control feature on the screen.
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3. Press OK select and follow the on-screen instructions.
Verizon FiOS instructions to “set up and use parental controls”:
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1. Press the Menu button on your remote.
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2. Highlight System and press OK/Select.
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3. Highlight Settings and press OK/Select.
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4. Select Parental/Purchase and press OK/Select.
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5. Create or enter your 4-digit Parental Controls PIN. You’ll then need to retype your PIN to confirm your selection.
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6. Select Parental Controls to turn them on.
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7. Select Age Preferences to set up age specific content blocks or Parental Preferences to block by content rating/channel/day/time or to control adult information. Important: Blocking any rating (such as TV-14) also automatically blocks all higher (more restrictive) ratings such as TV-MA.
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