While I understand your points about limiting choices to others, I don't think asking for a cable package choice that included channels that more or less conformed to broadcast channel standards is limiting your choice. And that is what Evie last post, the one you're responding to, seems to be saying. Perhaps our interpretations differed.
I'm not against the optional channels carrying a more varied range, and the premium channels that you actually subcribe and pay extra don't have to be so limited.
Shrug, I've watched many a show that wouldn't be PG rated myself. I don't have premium channels now because they're not worth the extra cost to me. I have a lot of channels that I don't watch because my only other smaller package choice is about 5 local broadcast channels only. Or it use to be, I'm not sure it's even available anymore.
Broadcast channels, and many of the so called (or used to be called) superstations use roughly the same standards, Disney, Animal Planet, etc could be made an option for households that didn't want anything more.
Chuckling, of course, such a standard in the past would have required Fox (even broadcast stations) to have been limited to a concious choice considering how far it pushed the envelop a few years ago for broadcast tv.
roger