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Forums - General Discussion - Canada is at it again, bans Dire Straights from radio

Wow banning a 31 year old song because it says faggot? That's kinda lame. I still like the song.



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badgenome said:

Apparently "Money for Nothing" is shooting up the Canadian iTunes charts. It just passed "Bed Intruder".


Sounds like a good marketing plan then, eh?



Man, I couldn't make it past the first sentence of that article. It reeks of condescension...kind of like the title to this topic. Anyway...

I was discussing this issue with a friend and I have to ask...how is this any different than the large number of songs that are censored for radio or the movies which are censored before they air on national TV? I may be wrong, but it seems that the song is banned as long as it contains the word "faggot," not banned from the airwaves in all cases. In other words, Dire Straits are not banned from Canadian radio.



As a Canadian I'm alittle pissed. Our country is the gay rights movements bitch. A gay guy gets offended and Canada will do anything and everything to make that gay guy happy. Banning a song because some gay guy gets offended is not right in my books. Sure nobody should be blatently insulting people's gender situation or religious choices.

I would think differently if it was say a ban on CBC radio but a nationwide ban on a song that is less offensive then the majority of rap and metal currently played over the radio is complete bull shit.

I'm still proud as hell to be Canadian but damn my Governments got to grow some balls and stop bending over backwards to every gay guy who gets pissed at something.



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One of the best songs ever.



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Curiously enough, I couldn't find any news about CBSC banning Buju Banton's "Boom bye-bye". Quite revealing about typical censors' acumen.   



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Oh, great. Now commercial radio only has 99 songs that they're allowed to play. And only five of them are good now. Way to go, regulators.

My local community radio station probably won't notice, and won't be impacted until five years later when some 60 year old DJ wannabe gives his old top 40 vinyl a spin. Then they'll receive a fine that's half the size of their annual operating budget.



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