The porn mandate.

The article asserts that the U.S. Congress is to blame for pornography intruding without warning onto unsuspecting viewers' cable-television systems. In 1984, the U.S. Congress decreed that cable systems must provide "access" channels open to all comers. "Access" has such a wonderful sound to it, conjuring up freedom, opportunity, equality and reality. Besides civic groups and churches, these channels have attracted pornographers, prostitutes, Ku Klux Klanners and similar people. Any cable operator who on his own initiative turns down these shows is breaking the law.