said by 59126125 :

While I'm not sure if forcing them to offer channels individually is a good idea, wouldn't it be relatively easy to do if they had something similar to Time Warner's project of switched digital video holding the channels at the edge router?

said by TKJunkMail :

Even if legislation forces a la carte offerings, they almost for sure won't mandate pricing schedules. And the a la carte prices will be high enough that all except religious fanatics will stick with the tiered offerings.

And if people don't want their kids to watch certain channels, every TV sold today and for the last 10 yrs and all STBs have a way to block individual channels.

So no matter what happens, this won't change the face of cable TV at all.