Editing V-chip (section)

==Implementation==
In 1993, Keith Spicer met with top American executives and disclosed information about the V-Chip Technology.<ref name=price1998>{{cite book | last = Price | first = Monroe Edwin | title = The V-Chip Debate: Content Filtering From Television to the Internet | url = https://archive.org/details/vchipdebate00monr | url-access = registration | publisher = Lawrence Erlbaum Associates|location=Mahwah, New Jersey| year = 1998}}</ref> "Tim Collings' creation holds promise in the future of the television industry, and the more exposure achieved, the more nations are able to benefit." Discussions took place about the increasing amount of violence on TV and the importance of monitoring and blocking shows. This sparked interest, but no steps were taken for implementation. In 1994 the technology was presented at a ''Violence on TV'' conference in France and later again at a conference in Belgium. This is where Al Gore first became familiarized with the concept of the V-Chip and the exposure helped him to advise Bill Clinton, which led to the decision to pass the Telecommunications Act of 1996.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2204057/A-Brief-History-of-Collings-V-chip-Invention | title = A Brief History of Colling's V-Chip Invention | access-date = 2010-05-27}}</ref> Once the V-Chip gained the ability to block multiple shows at the same time interest in the technology expanded significantly.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-03-12 |title=Whatever Happened to the V-Chip? |url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/tv/a19408909/20-years-ago-v-chip/ |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Popular Mechanics |language=en-US}}</ref> In January 1998 exclusive rights to the V-Chip were sold to Tri-Vision Electronics Inc.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Tri-Vision Moves to Next Level in Roll-out of Its V-Chip Product Line in North America. | journal = Business Wire | date = 1998-01-26}}</ref>