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badgenome on 13 January 2011
MrBubbles said:

oh..so you think private broadcasters shouldnt actually determine what they want to play now? that the government should intervene and force private broadcasters to play certain things? fascinating...

Er? I have to admit that the land of Human Rights Commissions often confuses me, but isn't this CBSC ruling a precursor to the actual CRTC outright banning the song from the airwaves? In other words, you'll choose to stop or you'll be stopped?



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Boutros on 13 January 2011

Canada killed the radio star



Mr Khan on 13 January 2011
Kasz216 said:
Acevil said:
Kasz216 said:
rocketpig said:
Acevil said:

Since it seems I am one sided: CBSC has made a lot of stupid decisions in the past, because simply they think be their actions results in everyone being satisfied. Good thing they don't control the contents of books, or maybe we would have words removed out of our books. 


I'd hate to see what those morons would do to Mark Twain's catalog of novels.

This is so bloody dumb that I can't even wrap my head around it.


Well you know it's  not just Canada with Mark Twain. (depending what it looks like there.)  Some publishing company is publising a new edition without the word nigger.   Replacing it with Slave.


Well we allow students in Grade 9 to read To Kill a Mockingbird uncensored. Don't know if schools offer Mark Twain. 

9th grade?  That was in our 6th grade slow readers class... I never did get a chance to read that cause I was actually in the advanced reading class.  Guess reading levels didn't really mean anything except segregating the students so some weren't held back or left behind.  Why different books would be read then though I dunno.

6th grade slow? Damn. That was our 11th grade ADVANCED



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pearljammer on 13 January 2011
Kasz216 said:
Acevil said:
 

Well we allow students in Grade 9 to read To Kill a Mockingbird uncensored. Don't know if schools offer Mark Twain. 

9th grade?  That was in our 6th grade slow readers class.

Pretty sure that's just simply a case of comprehension level as opposed to reading level. The outcomes and expectations would be wildly different between a 6th grade and a 9th grader.

OT: Yeah, it's a bit absurd. One of tmy least favoured things about this country is its oversensitity in these contexts... And damn it, I like Mark Knopfler.



TruckOSaurus on 13 January 2011
rocketpig said:

If you don't understand the film rating system in America, take a number and get in line.

Read up on Stone and Parker's take on the MPAA rating system when they made the South Park film. It's hilarious. Every time the film was rejected as being too obscene for even an R rating, they would turn around and make it WORSE. Eventually, the film was approved for an R rating. No one really understood why.

I think they said the movie was originally called "All hell breaks loose" or something like that and people objected because of the word "hell" then they came back with "Bigger, Longer and Uncut" and it got approved. Censors are weird.



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rocketpig on 13 January 2011
TruckOSaurus said:
rocketpig said:

If you don't understand the film rating system in America, take a number and get in line.

Read up on Stone and Parker's take on the MPAA rating system when they made the South Park film. It's hilarious. Every time the film was rejected as being too obscene for even an R rating, they would turn around and make it WORSE. Eventually, the film was approved for an R rating. No one really understood why.

I think they said the movie was originally called "All hell breaks loose" or something like that and people objected because of the word "hell" then they came back with "Bigger, Longer and Uncut" and it got approved. Censors are weird.

There was more to it than the title. There were a few scenes that went back to the ratings board 5-6 times before being inexplicably approved, as the scenes were more obscene than when they were initially reviewed.




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Lostplanet22 on 13 January 2011

I don't see the problem , their are plenty of songs banned in the USA aswell, I saw it in a program a few weeks ago, a middle aged (I think from Virginia) complained that he could not sing a song from his ancestors with the text ' And when our niggers working on the field' while at the same time the youth is riding with their cars playing loud music with songs that  use the words 'Nigger 10-20 times'..

And if I am not mistaken Green Day's American idiot was also banned/censored because it used the word Faggot.. in the USA..



 

rocketpig on 13 January 2011
Lostplanet22 said:

I don't see the problem , their are plenty of songs banned in the USA aswell, I saw it in a program a few weeks ago, a middle aged (I think from Virginia) complained that he could not sing a song from his ancestors with the text ' And when our niggers working on the field' while at the same time the youth is riding with their cars playing loud music with songs that  use the words 'Nigger 10-20 times'..

And if I am not mistaken Green Day's American idiot was also banned/censored because it used the word Faggot.. in the USA..

Private companies choosing not to play something or censoring specific words of their own volition is not the same thing as a national broadcast ban.




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TruckOSaurus on 13 January 2011
Lostplanet22 said:

I don't see the problem , their are plenty of songs banned in the USA aswell, I saw it in a program a few weeks ago, a middle aged (I think from Virginia) complained that he could not sing a song from his ancestors with the text ' And when our niggers working on the field' while at the same time the youth is riding with their cars playing loud music with songs that  use the words 'Nigger 10-20 times'..

And if I am not mistaken Green Day's American idiot was also banned/censored because it used the word Faggot.. in the USA..

What I don't understand is why they didn't just bleep the words out like in American Idiot. I remember the song What it's Like by Everlast being so censored it was ridiculous but they still aired it.



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richardhutnik on 13 January 2011
disolitude said:

lo, pretty funny.

I am pretty sure that most people in US would wish this was one of the problems they were having instead of...Sarah Pailin for example.

Palin has her own cable show.  If she would just stay on it, and the media just ignore here, she isn't a problem.