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2013-09-16 Government
Feds readying movie theater regulations for blind and deaf patrons
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Posted by Fred 2013-09-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top

#1 The big theater chains will back this, to eliminate smaller competitors and put up entry barriers for new competitors. Capitalism doesn't cause monopolies, governments do.
Posted by OldSpook 2013-09-16 00:20||   2013-09-16 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Why would somebody deaf & blind go to a movie theater?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-09-16 01:15||   2013-09-16 01:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Based upon the stats regarding the decline in moviegoing, I'd have to say that this will have very little effect on most people. Most of Hollywood's money comes from home video and export of their stuff now anyways.

Also, what Oldspook said.
Posted by no mo uro 2013-09-16 05:22||   2013-09-16 05:22|| Front Page Top

#4 What is a "movie theater?"
Posted by Perfesser 2013-09-16 06:58||   2013-09-16 06:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Did the blind guy who sued to be allowed to become a surgeon ever get his medical degree?
Posted by M. Murcek 2013-09-16 09:43||   2013-09-16 09:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Next stop: symphony halls. Then opera houses.
Posted by Fred 2013-09-16 09:59||   2013-09-16 09:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Next stop: symphony halls. Then opera houses.

Based on sheer numbers, if the government is going to get involved in helping people overcome their handicaps, the obvious next step is to help aspy computer geeks to get laid.
Posted by SteveS 2013-09-16 10:41||   2013-09-16 10:41|| Front Page Top

#8 I look forward to PBS for the deaf and blind and NPR for the deaf and blind. They get federal funding. Better fix it or loss it. Heh, as though.
Posted by Procopius2k 2013-09-16 10:43||   2013-09-16 10:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Why would somebody deaf & blind go to a movie theater?

So they can sue the theater owners for not following BO's mandate.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-09-16 12:08||   2013-09-16 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm torn between being angry that goverment is wating time on this sort of idoiocy and being grateful that government is wasting its time on this sort of idiocy.
Posted by Elmearong Gurly-Brown5896 2013-09-16 13:50||   2013-09-16 13:50|| Front Page Top

#11 ..amply demonstrates we have too much government doesn't it.
Posted by Procopius2k 2013-09-16 14:24||   2013-09-16 14:24|| Front Page Top

#12 This is largely being driven by lawyers. If the BO regime did not promulgate these rules, lawyers would look for a test client, then sue because the client couldn't see/hear the movie. Once they won, and precedent was established, they would move on to the next theater.

Having the govt establish the regs just saves the lawyers the trouble of establishing the precedent.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-09-16 14:30||   2013-09-16 14:30|| Front Page Top

#13 However, like any evolutionary process, the 'lawyers' need a niche to grow on. The 'too much government' is the niche. No such lousy laws (open to broad interpretation) and strict limitations on the judiciary (who are lawyers) would eliminate most of this.
Posted by Procopius2k 2013-09-16 15:26||   2013-09-16 15:26|| Front Page Top

#14 next...skydiving for the comatose
Posted by Fleque Untervehr1386 2013-09-16 16:29||   2013-09-16 16:29|| Front Page Top

#15 Obamacare questions may leading new foking regulations.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-09-16 16:37||   2013-09-16 16:37|| Front Page Top

#16 Most Hollywood movies would be more enjoyable if one was deaf and blind. They may be the only customers Hollywood has not offended.
Posted by Airandee 2013-09-16 19:26||   2013-09-16 19:26|| Front Page Top

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