Editing V-chip (section)

===Scientific-technical===
After being inspired to make a change in the violent programming available to youth, Oregon engineer John Jackson developed the V-chip.{{citation needed|reason=Jackson is not mentioned in the Invention and patent section of this article, and I can't find him in web searches.|date=April 2018}} Jackson conducted an independent study in Southern Oregon to determine the effects of television on violence.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}} In Canada in the early 1990s, studies on the possible effects of television on violence were conducted by the Canadian Radio-Television Commission, a committee of Parliament, and Heritage Canada. The reports all concluded that violence on television in Canada was a serious problem.<ref>{{cite book|author1=McDowell, Stephen|author2=Maitland, Carleen|editor1-last=Price|editor1-first=Monroe|title=The V-Chip Debate: Content filtering from television to the internet|date=2011|publisher=Routledge|location=New York, New York|isbn=978-0-8058-3061-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/vchipdebate00monr/page/28 28]|chapter=Developing television ratings in Canada and the United States: The perils and promises of self-regulation|chapter-url-access=registration|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/vchipdebate00monr/page/28}}</ref>

The V-chip gained popularity when it was revealed at a Technology Exposition at the G7 meetings in Brussels in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Santa Clara University: PPT Slide |url=https://www.cse.scu.edu/~rdaniels/html/courses/Coen1/97/vchip/tsld003.htm |access-date=2022-04-16 |website=www.cse.scu.edu |archive-date=July 31, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100731153112/http://www.cse.scu.edu/~rdaniels/html/courses/Coen1/97/vchip/tsld003.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>