Venezuela court orders media to clean out smut and porn

TV, billboards, even songs - Venezuela's Supreme Court is orderingthe media to clean out the smut and tone down sexually suggestive content.The ruling Friday by Venezuela's top court came in a case filed by a citizen "representing his underage children" who wanted to end "pornographic ads innewspapers and magazines for the general public."The court ordered "the elimination of all images of explicit or implicit sexualcontent in advertisements in print media of open access to girls, boys and teens,relating to ... activity that promotes services linked to the exploitation of sex," reada statement summarizing the ruling.As an example, the Tribunal mentions a Venezuelan sports daily that runs ads ofmodels who are "nude, semi-nude or in underwear in suggestive poses" advertisingsex phone chat lines.The ruling also calls on the Venezuela's Telecommunications Commission to monitor the content of songs of all music genres to make sure they are "acceptablefor all users," and that if necessary songs with racy lyrics be played on air onlyduring determined hours.And it orders groups that defend the rights of children and teens to control whatminors can see and play in video game arcade halls and on the Internet.