Music Censorship

In a magazine i subscribe to there is an article this mounth about the censorship of music.

Acoording to information they have gathered these are the top ten censorses of music between the dates 1980 and 1999.
In order from most censored to least:
Turkey, USA, South Africa, Israel/Occupied Territories, Chile, USSR and Russia (following the fall of the USSR), Czechoslovakia, Algeria, France and Britian.

The continent with the most censorship is The Middle East and NOrth Africa and the one with the least is the Caribbean.

This info is in the August issuye of the NEw Internationalist.

South Africa used to ban films with violence and with interracial marriages and Tipper Gore's group tried a whole bunch of shit in the 80s much of the "information" for parents came straight from the relgious right. did you know a secret panel decides what movies get what ratings for movies?

yes, they are the ones who keep Walt Disney Frozen!!!

Anyone heard of the anti-music censorship group called 'Parents for Rock and Rap'?

yeah it was started by Mary Morello

I've got a video of Rage playing and before one of there shows Mary Morello comes out and speaks about this organization. The crowd responce to her speech is dissapionting, I'm sure i hear some booing by the end.

It reached number one (In the charts), Then all of a sudden, There was no number one that week. :P

(Edited by Death at 4:57 pm on July 28, 2003)

shows you how hypocritical the united states constitution is!they talk about free specah but they wont leave artists like eminem alone about the things they say.ridiculous.

tell me about that org i havent heard of Mary Morello.

God save the queen by the sex pistols, I am sure that that got banned.

Mary Morello is Tom Morellos mother she started Parents For Rock and Rap to combat the PMRC

Here is a web page that includs a letter from Mary descibing in very little detail about the organization:

http://www.theroc.org/roc-mag/textarch/roc...03/roc03-07.htm

I'm sure there is a homepage to this organization (if it still exists) somewhere. On a qucik glance i could not find but if you look around there's plenty of info avaliable.

This photo was in the magazine as well, it's an example of america trying to stop people downloading pirate mp3's. It makes me laugh every time.

http://www.agroman.net/img/

Just click on the one that says communism.

:D :lol: :D :lol: :D :lol: